#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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Canada’s Liberals sweep 3 special elections
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Liberals swept three special elections Monday in a result that …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2026elections #BraedenCaley #Canada #Canadagovernment #Conservatism #DanielBland #DanielGobeil #Diplomacy #DonaldTrump #Elections #Generalnews #HedyFry #Internationaltrade #Liberalism #MarkCarney #PierrePoilievre #Politics #quebec #QuebecCity #ScottBessent #Tariffsandglobaltrade #Voting #World #Worldnews
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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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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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Liberalism: A Word Under Siege
Find out why the word 'liberal' has become an insult in American politics and what this means for political discussion.
#Liberalism, #PoliticalDiscourse, #USPolitics, #Ideology, #AmericanCulture
https://newsletter.tf/why-liberal-is-now-insult-in-us-politics/
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The word 'liberal' is now often used as an insult in the US, a trend seen in universities and politics. This is a shift from its earlier meanings.
#Liberalism, #PoliticalDiscourse, #USPolitics, #Ideology, #AmericanCulture
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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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Founding Fathers of Liberalism
John Locke (1632-1704)
Montesquieu (1689-1755)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832)
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -
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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"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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Liberalism's opposition to imperialism
https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/imperialism
#liberalism #classicalliberalism #libertarianism #rightlibertarianism #antiimperialism
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The video includes a brief explanation of different a priori truths behind true economic claims and proceeds to refute a series of counter-arguments against capitalism using those truths and derivations from those truths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUeDDAN8mY
#liberalism #classicalliberalism #libertarianism #rightlibertarianism #economics #austrianeconomics #capitalism #anticommunism #antisocialism
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How Austrian School Economists Crushed Karl Marx's Socialism
#liberalism #classicalliberalism #economics #austrianeconomics #mises #hayek #menger #böhmbawerk #capitalism #anticommunism #antisocialism
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There are a number of reasons why I'm not a communist...
-Richard Stalman
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/rms-kol.en.html#liberalism #classicalliberalism #libertarianism #rightlibertarianism #voluntaryism #freesoftware #opensource #digitalfreedom
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Free software is not a technical issue, it is an issue of freedom. #digitalfreedom
#liberalism #classicalliberalism #libertarianism #rightlibertarianism #voluntaryism #freesoftware #opensource
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The Militarised Libertarian Skinheads (M.L.S.) is a skinhead movement that combines military aesthetics with urban life. The M.L.S. movement advocates for the rights to life, liberty and property, as well as the right to possess and carry firearms, and supports open-source software.
#liberalism #classicalliberalism #libertarianism #rightlibertarianism #anarchism #anarchocapitalism #skinhead
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#Liberalism, whatever you think of it, has shaped the Western world and is under attack right now. The #Economist has well-written a #History of liberalism. Worthwhile reading…
𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗔 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
From #Locke and the “social contract” to #Rawls and the “veil of ignorance”, here are the people, ideas and world-shaking events that made liberalism what it is, and isn't, today
https://www.economist.com/interactive/primers/liberalism/timeline via #TheEconomist
#Keynes #Hayek #Popper #Schumpeter #Ahrend #Rousseau #Marx #Nietzsche
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"There are instances of reparative democracy all over the world.
Some are fleeting and partial; others are more sustained. Many emerge from the indigenous and the young, who do not need to be told that human and nonhuman life are interdependent, that the world is in an emergency state, and that constitutional liberal democracy is both incapable of addressing that emergency and itself an exhausted form."
"For reparative democracy oriented by the ecological emergency, for example, we need new ways of envisioning and hearing the nonhuman and our place within it. Sound theory, and especially bioacoustics, has much to teach us here. So also do some parts of indigenous cosmologies and ways of knowing." Wendy Brown
and Francis Wade, The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy >>
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-violent-exhaustion-of-liberal-democracy/
#liberalism #democracy #individualism #deforestation #logging #noise #ecocide #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateEmergency #IndigenousPeoples #voice #biodiversity #deprovincialize #isegoria #SoundEcology #RelationalTurn -
#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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Reclaiming #Democratic #ClassicalLiberalism
https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Article-from-ReclaimingLiberalismEbook.pdf
#Liberalism is skeptical "about government[s] being able to “do good” for people. Instead" the state should "maintain the conditions for people to be empowered ... to do good for themselves, for example, in establishing ... private property prerequisites for ... a market economy as emphasized in ... economic [thought] (e.g., Heyne et al. 2006, pp. 36–38)."
#liberal #PoliticalPhilosophy #philosophy #democracy #capitalism
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Here is a feminist opinion about #safety, #security, #masculinity, #whiteness, #liberals and #progressists.
It notably stated the need for a discourse incorporating sorrow and hope, on 9 November 2023:
(he) https://politicallycorret.co.il/morroco-smol-3/
(en) https://politicallycorret.co.il/morroccan-left-3-en/#leftWing #militancy #israel #israelPalestine #Mizrahi #Jewishness #theocracy #JewishState #feminisms #patriarchy #liberalism #israelApartheid #JewishSupremacy #brutalization #war #fragility #insecurity #entitlement #grief #grievability
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The Kantian Person/Thing Principle in Political Economy
https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/KantianPrinciple-JEI.pdf
This article presents a rights-based deontological theory of corporate governance inspired by aspects of Immanuel Kant's thought.
#philosophy #PoliticalPhilosophy #PoliticalTheory #ethics #BusinessEthics #economics #econ #capitalism #capitalist #labor #liberalism #ClassicalLiberalism #liberal #Kant #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #postcapitalism #postcapitalist #leftism #leftist #LibertarianSocialism #socialism
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Smadar #Lavie: #israel #Mizrahi left "#NGOs are budget dependent. If there are donations, they usually come from progressive Zionist donor organizations of the American-Jewish diaspora, and NGOs need to adapt their activism so that they don’t offend the donors. The image diaspora Jews have of Israel is that all Jews are equal in the homeland of the Jews."
https://www.972mag.com/smadar-lavie-israeli-protests-mizrahi/ #nationalism #whiteSupremacy #Jewishness #Judaism #liberalism #family #motherhood #marriage #theocracy #anthropology
