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  1. "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

    pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not

    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.

    #liberalism

  2. "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

    pluralistic.net/2023/09/05/not

    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.

    #liberalism

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. “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

  6. “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"

  7. “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

  8. “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

  9. “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

  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. #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

  15. 2/

    "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

  16. 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

    Trumpian State Capitalism | Il...

  17. 2/

    "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

  18. 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

    Trumpian State Capitalism | Il...

  19. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/t

    "As of early 2026, sovereign wealth funds globally manage a record high of approximately $15 trillion in assets, up from less than $1 trillion in 2000. 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

  20. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/t

    "As of early 2026, sovereign wealth funds globally manage a record high of approximately $15 trillion in assets, up from less than $1 trillion in 2000. 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

  21. This was clearly written by a liberal or it would not display such naiveness regarding the discretionary power of a State governed by the rule of law. Even though the article seems superficially very erudite, it exhibits a clear lack of knowledge of not only economic history but also of economic sociology. First of all, because it's written from the assumption that everything that preceded the Modern Era is useless from the point of view of human knowledge, which is very typical of bourgeois thinking.

    "An economic histo­rian might say that a polit­ical takeover by Big AI is unlikely, citing successful worker-led polit­ical move­ments in the US and Europe. If the US reaches 30% AI-induced unem­ploy­ment, the thinking goes, workers will rise up and demand change through polit­ical mech­a­nisms of our liberal democ­racy. There’s reason to doubt these paral­lels. These events occurred earlier in the tech­no­log­ical era, when industry and workers were adver­sarial yet remained inter­de­pen­dent. Citi­zens retained irre­ducible leverage with both industry (as laborers) and govern­ment (as voters). In the decades after the US Gilded Age, this combi­na­tion of economic and elec­toral power was crit­ical to the rising status of workers. But in a future post-AI economy, workers could lose their jobs because of Big AI while remaining depen­dent on Big AI for basic needs.
    (...)
    Legally, shifting the social safety net from govern­ment to Big AI also means that citizen enti­tle­ment to these goodies will shift from public statu­tory and consti­tu­tional law to private-contract law. Private compa­nies can with­hold goodies for many reasons the govern­ment cannot. For instance: if you talk shit about the govern­ment, you will still get your unem­ploy­ment check, because the First Amend­ment says so. But no such restric­tion on Big AI: if you talk shit about them, they will be free to revoke your goodies."

    matthewbutterick.com/extinctio

    #Liberalism #AI #Automation #MassUnemployment

  22. This was clearly written by a liberal or it would not display such naiveness regarding the discretionary power of a State governed by the rule of law. Even though the article seems superficially very erudite, it exhibits a clear lack of knowledge of not only economic history but also of economic sociology. First of all, because it's written from the assumption that everything that preceded the Modern Era is useless from the point of view of human knowledge, which is very typical of bourgeois thinking.

    "An economic histo­rian might say that a polit­ical takeover by Big AI is unlikely, citing successful worker-led polit­ical move­ments in the US and Europe. If the US reaches 30% AI-induced unem­ploy­ment, the thinking goes, workers will rise up and demand change through polit­ical mech­a­nisms of our liberal democ­racy. There’s reason to doubt these paral­lels. These events occurred earlier in the tech­no­log­ical era, when industry and workers were adver­sarial yet remained inter­de­pen­dent. Citi­zens retained irre­ducible leverage with both industry (as laborers) and govern­ment (as voters). In the decades after the US Gilded Age, this combi­na­tion of economic and elec­toral power was crit­ical to the rising status of workers. But in a future post-AI economy, workers could lose their jobs because of Big AI while remaining depen­dent on Big AI for basic needs.
    (...)
    Legally, shifting the social safety net from govern­ment to Big AI also means that citizen enti­tle­ment to these goodies will shift from public statu­tory and consti­tu­tional law to private-contract law. Private compa­nies can with­hold goodies for many reasons the govern­ment cannot. For instance: if you talk shit about the govern­ment, you will still get your unem­ploy­ment check, because the First Amend­ment says so. But no such restric­tion on Big AI: if you talk shit about them, they will be free to revoke your goodies."

    matthewbutterick.com/extinctio

    #Liberalism #AI #Automation #MassUnemployment

  23. what's convenient about liberal conceptions of identity politics is not only do they prevent solidarity and sow division they also present a ready-made excuse for why any given action can't be accomplished

    this is super useful for people who only ever planned to "post through it"

    #IdentityPolitics #Liberalism

  24. #AntiAI #technology people's whole stance is reminiscent of the problem with #Liberals and #Liberalism.

    They are usually like, "Don't ever do anything with #AI".

    The stance is to entirely abdicate any and all responsibility for the #tech to #billionaires #oligarchs and #techbros.

    It is the reason why #evil is allowed to take foothold. It is the reason why #fascism rises. The people who are compassionate, ethical, and righteous are weak and feckless.

  25. #AntiAI #technology people's whole stance is reminiscent of the problem with #Liberals and #Liberalism.

    They are usually like, "Don't ever do anything with #AI".

    The stance is to entirely abdicate any and all responsibility for the #tech to #billionaires #oligarchs and #techbros.

    It is the reason why #evil is allowed to take foothold. It is the reason why #fascism rises. The people who are compassionate, ethical, and righteous are weak and feckless.

  26. 10,000 year Mandate of Heaven to Mark Carney, Protector of Liberalism

    Voter Intention:
    LPC 50
    CPC 34
    NDP 6
    BQ 6

    Liberal Government - 54 Approve
    Carney - 56 Approve 37 Disapprove
    Carney in QC - 63 Approve

    #canada #canpoli #canpol #liberalism

    leger360.com/in-the-news-liber

  27. The paradox of multiculturalism

    A liberal immigration model may inadvertently foster exclusive ethnic communities, contradicting its aim to promote civic identity. While liberalism envisions a diverse society with diminished tribal loyalties, human beings tend to form collective identities. This can lead to demographic changes that reshape political landscapes, creating a tension within liberal ideology itself.

    amkent.co.uk/2026/06/03/the-pa

  28. The paradox of multiculturalism

    A liberal immigration model may inadvertently foster exclusive ethnic communities, contradicting its aim to promote civic identity. While liberalism envisions a diverse society with diminished tribal loyalties, human beings tend to form collective identities. This can lead to demographic changes that reshape political landscapes, creating a tension within liberal ideology itself.

    amkent.co.uk/2026/06/03/the-pa

  29. https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/27/ip-28-oregon-hunting-ban/90278534007/

    lmao peak liberalism. restrict indigenous practices, completely abandon the idea of population control, hold back biomedical research by years, eliminate all animal products regardless of necessity or sustainability, alienate rural voters, permanently destroy the economy, and spike the cost of living all so we can have a vague sense of feeling good about ourselves. like what an incredibly, remarkably awful idea. you might as well have just poured all that money into the RNC campaign fund. this is what no material or structural analysis gets you


    #us-politics #liberalism #idealism
  30. Bu bir internet ortamında gizlilik bildirisidir.

    Özel hayatın gizliliği, dijital dünyanın sunacağı bir ayrıcalık değil; bireylerin doğuştan sahip olduğu temel bir haktır. Anonimiyye Bildirisi, bu anlayış temel alınarak hazırlanmış; dijital ortamda bireylerin gizliliğini ve güvenliğini korumayı amaçlayan pratik ve etik maddeler bütünüdür. Bildirinin maddeleri; bireyin özel hayatının gizliliğini, başkalarının gizliliğine saygıyı ve güvenlik bilincini güçlendirmektedir.

    karsi-atak.com.tr/anonimiyye/

    #siberözgürlükçü #cyberlibertarian #siberözgürlükçülük #siberliberteryen #siberlibertarian #siberliberteryenizm #cyberlibertarianism #cyberlibertarianism #siberözgürlük #cyberliberty #sibergizlilik #cyberprivacy #sibergüvenlik #cybersecurity #özgüryazılım #libresoftware #açıkkaynak #opensource #özgürveaçıkkaynaklıyazılım #libreandopensourcesoftware #öaky #loss #fedevren #fediverse #cypherpunk #liberal #liberalizm #liberalism #klasikliberal #classicalliberal #klasikliberalizm #classicalliberalism #liberteryen #libertarian #liberteryenizm #libertarianism #sağliberteryen #rightlibertarian #sağliberteryenizm #rightlibertarianism

  31. liberalism's philosophical fraying - a commentary

    John Gray explains why modern liberal ideas are losing their meaning. Learn how unclear words affect political debate and why this matters for society today.

    #liberalism, #johngray, #politics2026, #politicaltheory, #clearthinking

    newsletter.tf/john-gray-libera