#liberalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #liberalism, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/news/55714/ Amish Shah wins Democratic nod in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District #2026Elections #AndyBiggs #Arizona #AZStateWire #DavidSchweikert #DonaldTrump #elections #Football #GeneralNews #GovernmentAndPolitics #Headlines #HouseElections #JayFeely #JoeBiden #JosephChaplik #Liberalism #MariaLiong #MarleneGalnWoods #MatthewDunlap #News #NFLFootball #Politics #RandyVillegas #SuzanDeBene #TopStories #USDemocraticParty #USNews #USRepublicanParty #WashingtonNews
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When a citizen points to their country's constitution as evidence that their government's actions are unlawful, that apparently renders the citizen a foreign agent. The message should be clear to all those even considering lending the country the benefit of the doubt: "Freedom has no place in Russia!" (https://reason.com/2026/07/22/russia-labels-libertarian-party-a-foreign-agent-effectively-ending-its-political-activity/)
#Russia #freeSpeech #VladimirPutin #authoritarianism #democraticBacksliding #anarchism #liberalism #libertarianism -
When a citizen points to their country's constitution as evidence that their government's actions are unlawful, that apparently renders the citizen a foreign agent. The message should be clear to all those even considering lending the country the benefit of the doubt: "Freedom has no place in Russia!" (https://reason.com/2026/07/22/russia-labels-libertarian-party-a-foreign-agent-effectively-ending-its-political-activity/)
#Russia #freeSpeech #VladimirPutin #authoritarianism #democraticBacksliding #anarchism #liberalism #libertarianism -
When a citizen points to their country's constitution as evidence that their government's actions are unlawful, that apparently renders the citizen a foreign agent. The message should be clear to all those even considering lending the country the benefit of the doubt: "Freedom has no place in Russia!" (https://reason.com/2026/07/22/russia-labels-libertarian-party-a-foreign-agent-effectively-ending-its-political-activity/)
#Russia #freeSpeech #VladimirPutin #authoritarianism #democraticBacksliding #anarchism #liberalism #libertarianism -
When a citizen points to their country's constitution as evidence that their government's actions are unlawful, that apparently renders the citizen a foreign agent. The message should be clear to all those even considering lending the country the benefit of the doubt: "Freedom has no place in Russia!" (https://reason.com/2026/07/22/russia-labels-libertarian-party-a-foreign-agent-effectively-ending-its-political-activity/)
#Russia #freeSpeech #VladimirPutin #authoritarianism #democraticBacksliding #anarchism #liberalism #libertarianism -
Shared Article — Yuval Noah Harari: The Myth of Freedom
Shared reading from The Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari — not an original Free Will Is a Bad Joke article. -
Shared Article — Yuval Noah Harari: The Myth of Freedom
Shared reading from The Guardian by Yuval Noah Harari — not an original Free Will Is a Bad Joke article. -
"In the final video (for now) in the Fascism series, I bring what we've learned about the Fascist period then to now, asking whether MAGA is Fascist and theorising a future that could lead to a 'Liberal-Fascism'."
https://youtu.be/ncpvlpc63ow?si=bxkvscdKjkxUurcg
#MAGA #USfascism #USpol #liberalism #LiberalFascism #neoliberalism #fascism
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"In the final video (for now) in the Fascism series, I bring what we've learned about the Fascist period then to now, asking whether MAGA is Fascist and theorising a future that could lead to a 'Liberal-Fascism'."
https://youtu.be/ncpvlpc63ow?si=bxkvscdKjkxUurcg
#MAGA #USfascism #USpol #liberalism #LiberalFascism #neoliberalism #fascism
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"In the final video (for now) in the Fascism series, I bring what we've learned about the Fascist period then to now, asking whether MAGA is Fascist and theorising a future that could lead to a 'Liberal-Fascism'."
https://youtu.be/ncpvlpc63ow?si=bxkvscdKjkxUurcg
#MAGA #USfascism #USpol #liberalism #LiberalFascism #neoliberalism #fascism
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"In the final video (for now) in the Fascism series, I bring what we've learned about the Fascist period then to now, asking whether MAGA is Fascist and theorising a future that could lead to a 'Liberal-Fascism'."
https://youtu.be/ncpvlpc63ow?si=bxkvscdKjkxUurcg
#MAGA #USfascism #USpol #liberalism #LiberalFascism #neoliberalism #fascism
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"In the final video (for now) in the Fascism series, I bring what we've learned about the Fascist period then to now, asking whether MAGA is Fascist and theorising a future that could lead to a 'Liberal-Fascism'."
https://youtu.be/ncpvlpc63ow?si=bxkvscdKjkxUurcg
#MAGA #USfascism #USpol #liberalism #LiberalFascism #neoliberalism #fascism
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"Fundamentally: Klein is a leftist, Wolf was a liberal. The classic leftist distinction goes: leftists want to abolish a system where 150 white men run the world; liberals want to replace half of those 150 with women, queers and people of color."
#CoryDoctorow, 2026
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine
This is not to say that leftists don't agree with liberals on anything (we do) and can't work politically with them on single issues (we can). But we have fundamentally different goals.
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"Fundamentally: Klein is a leftist, Wolf was a liberal. The classic leftist distinction goes: leftists want to abolish a system where 150 white men run the world; liberals want to replace half of those 150 with women, queers and people of color."
#CoryDoctorow, 2026
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not-that-naomi/#if-the-naomi-be-klein-youre-doing-just-fine
This is not to say that leftists don't agree with liberals on anything (we do) and can't work politically with them on single issues (we can). But we have fundamentally different goals.
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Liberals relearning they directly caused fascism
https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1041999/liberals-relearning-they-directly-caused-fascism
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Liberals relearning they directly caused fascism
https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1041999/liberals-relearning-they-directly-caused-fascism
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Liberals relearning they directly caused fascism
https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1041999/liberals-relearning-they-directly-caused-fascism
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Liberals relearning they directly caused fascism
https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1041999/liberals-relearning-they-directly-caused-fascism
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Liberals relearning they directly caused fascism
https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/1041999/liberals-relearning-they-directly-caused-fascism
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
"An insightful and harrowing analysis of the state of Western-style democracy"
Sale: $20 to $1.99
by Edward Luce
Rating: 4.3/5 (1604 Reviews)
#booksky #liberalism #democracy #economics #history #politics #books
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
"An insightful and harrowing analysis of the state of Western-style democracy"
Sale: $20 to $1.99
by Edward Luce
Rating: 4.3/5 (1604 Reviews)
#booksky #liberalism #democracy #economics #history #politics #books
The Retreat of Western Liberal... -
https://www.europesays.com/news/49496/ Democrat Mallory McMorrow suspends her Michigan Senate campaign #2026Elections #AbdulElSayed #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #BernieSanders #DanaNessel #elections #ElissaSlotkin #GeneralNews #Headlines #Liberalism #MIStateWire #Michigan #MidtermElections #MikeRogers #News #Politics #SenateElections #TopStories #USDemocraticParty #UnitedStatesSenate #WashingtonNews
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https://www.europesays.com/people/132850/ Democrats wrestle with race, populism and ideology in clashes with lawmakers of color | Washington #BlackExperience #Elections #GeneralNews #HakeemJeffries #hispanics #liberalism #MamdaniDemocraticSocialistsJeffriesPopulismIdeologyRace #Politics #RaceAndEthnicity #RebellionsAndUprisings #socialism #WashingtonNews
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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
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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Por fin una #noticia refrescante. Si te vas a trabajar a la mina al culo del mundo, ganas más dinero que con el SMI... #cryptobros news. #junknews #liberalism
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Por fin una #noticia refrescante. Si te vas a trabajar a la mina al culo del mundo, ganas más dinero que con el SMI... #cryptobros news. #junknews #liberalism
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Por fin una #noticia refrescante. Si te vas a trabajar a la mina al culo del mundo, ganas más dinero que con el SMI... #cryptobros news. #junknews #liberalism
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Por fin una #noticia refrescante. Si te vas a trabajar a la mina al culo del mundo, ganas más dinero que con el SMI... #cryptobros news. #junknews #liberalism
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Por fin una #noticia refrescante. Si te vas a trabajar a la mina al culo del mundo, ganas más dinero que con el SMI... #cryptobros news. #junknews #liberalism
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
Ayn Rand
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
Ayn Rand
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
Ayn Rand
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government."
Ayn Rand
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
Confucius
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
Confucius
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
Confucius
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#libertarianism #liberalism #facts
"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
Confucius
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https://www.europesays.com/news/44186/ Cafe Tells Congressman He’s Not Welcome Because of His Stance on Israel #AmericanIsraelPublicAffairsCommittee #Coffeehouses #DanielS #DemocraticParty #Goldman #Headlines #Liberalism(USPolitics) #NewYorkCity #News #PoeticaCoffee #PrimariesAndCaucuses #SocialMedia #TopStories
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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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"sovereign wealth funds globally manage a record high of approximately $15 trillion in assets, up from less than $1 trillion in 2000. "
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phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... 1/ "As of early 2026, state-owned enterprises control even more: $54 trillion in assets, the equivalent of almost half of global GDP, which is up from about $13 trillion in 2000." #capitalism #democracy #liberalism #neoliberalism #inequality #elections
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"sovereign wealth funds globally manage a record high of approximately $15 trillion in assets, up from less than $1 trillion in 2000. "
#capitalism #democracy #liberalism #neoliberalism #inequality #elections
