#liberalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #liberalism, aggregated by home.social.
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The disintegration of liberalism and 'postliberal disillusionment'
* "That sound you hear is not the world ending – it’s liberalism being monstered liberalism. Liberalism defines almost our entire social and political order in the west."
"Broad, deep, relentless. And what matters most is the compounding effect: a near-constant sense of crisis in almost every sphere of life."
“... It is the vehicle for this fury that is directed towards the major parties because of this very long sense of neglect and social economic disempowerment that has become so profound."
"It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress...When people stop believing in progress, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours. Our political order was built on the promise of expanding wealth and greater control over our lives. It said we could dream big, then pursue those dreams, and that if we didn’t achieve them, maybe our children would."
"As disillusionment sets in, there is no shortage of culprits. One possibility is to tell a story about capitalism, which generates gaping inequalities and destroys the planet." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/07/waleed-aly-time-of-monsters-future-liberalism-essay* The medicalisation of social problems is the sociological process by which everyday human experiences, behaviors, and societal challenges come to be defined, labeled, and treated as medical conditions or disorders
* "Post-traumatic embitterment disorder
is a pathological response to a single adverse life event perceived by the affected individual as a serious insult, humiliation, or injustice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_embitterment_disorder
#liberalism #progress #CoreValues #inequality #injustice #experiences #disintegration #disillusionment #failure #democracy #erosion #CommonGood #decline #ressentiment #fury #medicalisation #PostliberalDisillusionment #retrograde #PostLiberalism #polycrisis -
@TheDavePakmanShow
Is a post-Trump COLLAPSE inevitable?
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Liberalism ante portas - Debates and Sources
https://serdargunes.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/liberalism-ante-portas-debates-and-sources/
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Slavery-entangled philosophy
John #Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and #liberalism itself, hypocritical?
https://aeon.co/essays/does-lockes-entanglement-with-slavery-undermine-his-philosophy
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This concession overstates the #libertarian argument. Even on its own terms, taxation isn’t theft. The classical #liberal justification of property rights is that people get the fruits of their labor, but #libertarianism overlooks the fact that land isn’t a product of labor. However, using natural resources and land services are negative fruits of everyone’s labor. Positive law determines who owes these liabilities. Taxation satisfies these liabilities
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This produces a contradiction where the act of judgement is both good and bad if there is no inalienable right. With the inalienable right, the answer is always moral regardless of the consequences.
David Ellerman also derives inalienable rights from principles of justice.
https://www.ellerman.org/reclaiming-democratic-classical-liberalism/
#liberalism #liberal #ClassicalLiberal #deontology #deontological #HumanRights
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It's interesting to watch the American Democratic party fall into the same bitter recriminations that have consumed Canada's NDP - it's not us that's wrong, it's the voters.
Canada also shows the remedy - Liberalism still has legs. Canada simply takes the world as it is, fights hard for its own beliefs and interests, doesn't confuse bold action for populism, and makes no apologies for doing what it must in the face of adversary near and afar.
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Growing up, I was always told to mock #socialism as a form of utopianism, as if that was a bad thing. #Utopianism was never a belief that something would happen, or that anything would be perfect. It was a thought experiment to consider what a perfect outcome would look like, so we could implement the ideas and get as close as possible. Meanwhile, #capitalism , #conservatism , #liberalism , and #libertarianism are just as #utopian in their dreams. Capitalism and libertarianism believe that if we JUST get government out of the way, we could have the #freemarkets work the way they are supposed to and lead to prosperity for all, never mind that corporations only exist because of #bankruptcy laws and standards created by Congress. Modern conservatism believes that if we just went back to a specific, unspecified time point when religion ruled, we would have prosperity again, never mind that America was never like that, even when we were at our most religious. #Liberals believe that if freedom, equality, and equity are guaranteed, but with a true free market that does require governments to regulate it, we would have true prosperity. The only difference is that #Marx , using arguments by #AdamSmith himself, poked holes in all of these ideas at their core. That the structure itself needed an overhaul of who holds power, or at least patched with a strong welfare state, and to work toward that utopian dream where the people held the power instead of the lords or #oligarchs and everyone was a lawmaker with direct democracy, there was a return of #thecommons that was just the norm for most of human history, and #personalproperty was something you physically used, erned and worked instead of from trading, hoarding and wasting while people starved aka #privateproperty . The day the lords stole the commons from the people was the day that socialism started to exist, with the Diggers and the Levelers attempting to take on the power of the lords and realizing they already ran their own villages, or communes and affairs in their areas, and the lords were just a middleman that contributed little to nothing. Hence the term #communism , which is a return to the natural commons people like #John Locke and #Voltaire and other #Enlightenment thinkers idealized, but capitalism has brainwashed people to ignore, forget, or never know in the first place they believed this while we were told to look up to them. Utopianism gives us the power to dream, to coalesce our ideas and our ideals. When we were told not to dream of our ideal world but were told to dream of their ideal, that's when the dream died and we just all became doomers. -
CW: Graphic descriptions of bodily mutilation.
This story and that of Marius Gustavson (linked in the article) engaged my interest because I have read very little about the sexual preferences and practices described. I find them more than a little off-putting.
Nevertheless, beyond the sensationalistic interest, the articles did get me thinking.
I am aware of this equation:
My Thing That I Really Like = Your Fetish = Their Weird Fixation.
Yet in addition to the standard liberal thoughts about the harm principle, the licitness or otherwise of paternalism, informed consent and so on, I also found myself wondering about the propriety of terms like "disgust" and "perversion".
I still have not sorted my thoughts out.
#NeilHopper #MariusGustavson #BodyModification #Amputation #SexualPreference #Sex #Liberalism #harm #Consent #Disgust #Perversion #Apotemnophilia #BodyIntegrityDisorder
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“In her magisterial book The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan offers a sobering conclusion: The Partition of 1947 is also a loud reminder, should we care to listen, of the dangers of colonial interventions and the profound difficulties that dog regime change. It stands testament to the follies of empire, which ruptures community evolution, distorts historical trajectories and forces violent state formation from societies that would otherwise have taken different—and unknowable—paths. Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism. For better or worse, two nations continue to live alongside each other in South Asia and continue to live with these legacies.”
―Caroline Elkins, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"#liberalism #raceMaking #hinduism #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #CarolineElkins #Elkins #book #quotes #regimeChange
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https://www.europesays.com/people/128597/ After New York’s Primary Elections, Democrats Face Five Big Questions #Abdul #Alex #Bores #Cait #CharlesE #ChuckSchumer #Conley #DanielS #DemocraticParty #ElSayed #Elections #Goldman #Hakeem #HouseOfRepresentatives #Jeffries #JusticeDemocrats #Lasher #Liberalism(USPolitics) #mamdani #MicahC #MidtermElections2026 #NewYorkCity #NydiaM #PoliticsAndGovernment #PresidentialElectionOf2028 #PrimariesAndCaucuses #schumer #Velazquez #Zohran
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/172897/ Cafe Tells Congressman He’s Not Welcome Because of His Stance on Israel #AmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommittee #Coffeehouses #DanielS #DemocraticParty #Goldman #Israel #Liberalism(USPolitics) #NewYorkCity #PoeticaCoffee #PrimariesAndCaucuses #SocialMedia
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Anthropology - individualism, collectivism or communitarianism
https://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2007/10/22/ant
hropology-individualism-collectivism-or-communitarianism/
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A new colleague, Alaka Oluwatobi, shared his decolonial essay with me. I share this interest, so I read it and wrote a blog post. The essay is linked there as well as in the first comment if you'd like to read it without my opinions.
#philosophy #politics #society #culture #humancondition #language #morality #colonialism #liberalism #imperialism #hegemony #sovereignty #agency #autonomy #assey #blog #podcast #metaethics #metaphysics #fanon #hegel #history #critique
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@angrystaffer.bsky.social Listen up America, it's (way past) our turn to do the same.
#us #uspol #hungary #orban #fascism #illiberalism #liberalism
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Given the choice, Centrists always side with fascists or the right. #LifeLesson You can't trust centrists. Example:
"the leader of the ailing Liberals, Simona Mohamsson, shocked her party last month by abruptly switching positions on SD, announcing that her party would accept being in government with a far-right force she had previously denounced as racist. She also held a press conference alongside Åkesson in which they hugged."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/swedish-pm-offers-deal-that-could-see-far-right-allowed-into-government
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Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
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"Many liberals, after the double shock of Trump and Brexit in 2016, confessed their supposed mistakes and performed contrition, along the lines of: we failed to pay attention to the “left-behind”; we must book political safaris in Appalachia; we must closely study Hillbilly Elegy to demonstrate compassion for the heartland. Of course, self-criticism and checking one’s priors is a good thing. But behind the ostentatious displays of “we failed to listen” was also a profound narcissism: if only we acted (or at least talked) differently, all would be well. Only liberals, or so the assumption goes again, have agency; performing contrition reinforced that flattering image.
Even worse, this narcissism keeps shoring up the right’s claim that there is a “real America” and that only they speak for it. As any viewer of Sunday-morning shows has noticed, Republicans can malign city dwellers without anyone batting an eyelid; Obama saying something about guns and religion in rural areas triggers a multiyear scandal. It would not even occur to anyone to demand an apology from GOP members for insulting all urban dwellers. The asymmetry is taken for granted; liberals just accept it. This is what victory in a culture war looks like: Democrats accept the cultural framings enforced by the other side, even though polls would suggest that the liberals’ positions are often more popular (or, dare one say, reflect more about “real America” than the far-right fantasies pushed by Fox and its far-right friends)."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/anti-woke-liberals-helped-trump-win
#Liberalism #Liberals #Centrism #ReactionaryCentrism #Fascism #Woke #AntiWoke
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A decade ago, when I had my political coming-of-age moment, I was told that I could either value the markets or advance social liberty, conservative or liberal, right-wing or left. Looking back, that seems to me like a false dichotomy intended to squelch out unpopular views befitting a third party. I mean, what's wrong with wanting both?
#conservatism #falseDichotomy #liberalism #twoPartySystem #USPolitics #thirdParty
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“Why You Should Feel Good About Liberalism” [2024], Persuasion (https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-you-should-feel-good-about-liberalism).
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Quand j'ai chaud
Je bois de l'eau
Quand j'ai peur
Je cherche mon cœur
Quand j'ai mal
Ça passe, normal
Quand je n'ai rien
Je lève mon poing
Contre les riches
Et ceux qui s'en fichent#poesie #poeme #litterature #autrice #taxtherich #paix #gaza #protest #anticapitalisme #communism #antifa #lire #mondemeilleur #utopie #change #superrich #liberalism #neoliberalisme #marx #demo #democratie #manif #revolution #manifestation #pauvreté #pauvres #union #indignezvous #anarchie #egalite #toutpourtous #pax
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civicusmonitor.contentfiles.net/media/docume... Let that sink in - less than 10% of the people live in non-closed/repressed/obstructed countries as of 2025. What began after WW2 - #democratization, #liberalism, #equality, #equity, #progress, #labor #rights #law etc. is barely hanging on.
civicusmonitor.contentfiles.net/media/document... -
https://civicusmonitor.contentfiles.net/media/documents/GlobalFindings2025.EN.pdf
Let that sink in - less than 10% of the people live in non-closed/repressed/obstructed countries as of 2025. What began after WW2 - #democratization, #liberalism, #equality, #equity, #progress, #labor #rights #law etc. is barely hanging on by its fingernails.
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📖 In a paper published in the Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, José Miguel Ferreira writes about Bernardo Peres da Silva (1775–1844), the first and only Indian to be appointed governor of the Portuguese Empire in Asia and a notable figure in the global ‘Age of Revolutions’.
#Histodons #Imperialism #India #PortugeseEmpire #ColonialHistory #Revolutions #Liberalism #Goa #Imperialismo #HistóriaColonial #ImpérioPortuguês #Asia #Liberalismo #Revoluções
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The #egalitarian 'project' of the #Communist #revolution... failed
the #USSR turned into a > #dictatorship.
The #USA has chosen the opposite path... #liberalism
which today has resulted in > dictatorship.
what does it teach us?The 'extremisms' are ultimately EQUAL
look at #Europe...
Nations that have already suffered historical 'ups and downs'
for centuries
and experienced EVERYTHINGDemocracy is 'complicated'
BUT
if maintained (for better or for worse)
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2/ Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency
Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.
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on looking the liberal part, past & present
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/14-sep-2025-fashion-liberal-society-political-community-derek-guy-toby-buckle/#DerekGuy #DieWorkWear #suit #suitcoat #menswear #clothingStyle #style #TobyBuckle #PoliticalPhilosophy #PoliticalPhilosophyPodcast #liberal #liberalism #postliberal #postliberalism #communitarianism #fascism
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“For nearly a thousand years, communities on the Indian subcontinent had coexisted in a cultural melting where religious identity was less salient than ethnic or linguistic identity. “A hybrid Indo-Islamic civilization emerged,” according to the historian of India William Dalrymple. “In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages, and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religious faith.” Much as communities had negotiated means of coexistence in pre-Mandate Palestine only to see them unravel during British rule, the subcontinent’s communal arrangements corroded when the full weight of Britain’s colonial state bore down on them. The Raj’s divide and rule policies produced a chemical-like reaction, shattering long-standing traditions of coexistence and interacting with local personalities who had their own ambitions, passions, and allegiances. It was another liberal experiment in empire gone horribly wrong, and on a scale so epic that once history’s chain of contingent events combusted, no one could contain it.”
Excerpt from Caroline Elkins' #book, "Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire"
@bookstodon hat-tip @markvonwahlde
#liberalism #castism #raceMaking #hindouism #beliefs #violence #brutalization #ethnic #religion #islamophobia #IndianSubcontinent #India #Pakistan #Bangladesh #colonialism #British #preBritish #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #bookStodon #CarolineElkins
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Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.
Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.
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#PeterVanInwagen - What is #FreeWill?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhFhV03k2Uo
#Philoophy #PhilosophyOfFreeWill #Will #Intentionality #Intention #Intentions #Choice #FreeChoice #Determinism #Liberalism #Libertarian #Libertarianism #Compatibilism #Incompatibilism #ConsequenceArgument #MindArgument #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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⬆️ His #vainglory is causing "#Orban fatigue now in Brussels”
Orban's role as #Europe’s perennial spoiler has brought #EU to breaking point.
“We are the sand in the machinery, the stick between the spokes, the splinter under the fingernail,” Orbán said in 2021.
Orban has railed against “#woke culture,” & referred to #liberalism as a “#virus”
A #Hungarian think tank thinks he is “doing it for recognition. He can meet with and talk to the most important leaders of EU.”
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⬆️ His #vainglory is causing "#Orban fatigue now in Brussels”
Orban's role as #Europe’s perennial spoiler has brought #EU to breaking point.
“We are the sand in the machinery, the stick between the spokes, the splinter under the fingernail,” Orbán said in 2021.
Orban has railed against “#woke culture,” & referred to #liberalism as a “#virus”
A #Hungarian think tank thinks he is “doing it for recognition. He can meet with and talk to the most important leaders of EU.”
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⬆️ His #vainglory is causing "#Orban fatigue now in Brussels”
Orban's role as #Europe’s perennial spoiler has brought #EU to breaking point.
“We are the sand in the machinery, the stick between the spokes, the splinter under the fingernail,” Orbán said in 2021.
Orban has railed against “#woke culture,” & referred to #liberalism as a “#virus”
A #Hungarian think tank thinks he is “doing it for recognition. He can meet with and talk to the most important leaders of EU.”
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[Continued] Then articulates 5 main an-pac contributions on: #fetishization of #violence; chronic sliding towards systemic #militarism; intersectional state-enforced #exploitation/#domination; structurings of international politics (current & potential); & questions of #politicalagency.
Throughout & towards end, positions these ideas against more established schools of #IRtheory, from #justwartheory to #realism, #liberalism, #Marxism, #poststructuralism, #feminism & others.
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On Arming Leftists and Queers and The Nature of Power
https://cohost.org/autogynamelia/post/398282-on-arming-leftists-a
#elmforkjohnbrowngunclub #guns #guncontrol #power #powerstructures #coerciveauthority #bigotry #oppression #marginalization #selfdefense #communityselfdefense #armqueers #armqueerpeople #armtranspeople #armleftists #acab #1312 #allcopsarebad #allcopsarebastards #anarchist #anarchism #anarchy #electoralpolitics #liberals #liberalism #democrats #homophobia #transmisogyny #transphobia
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#Deontology and #HumanRights with #Philosopher #SimonBlackburn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ve3n3uIL4&ab_channel=NortheasternUniversityLondon
#Philosophy #Utilitarianism #IndirectUtilitarianism #Consequentialism #CategoricalImperative #Mill #JohnStuartMill #JSM #Kant #ImmanuelKant #Liberalism #Economics #Ethics #MoralPhilosophy
