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@version, I’ll bite. Not one utterance of “capital,” “capitalism” or “capitalist politics” in there, a little stunning. That liberalism, liberal rights and ideals, can be at odds with capital, that capitalist society will always remain in toto illiberal, sub-bourgeois, that fulfilling and overcoming liberalism, prosecuting its revolutionary content, would also mean doing the same for capitalism, doesn’t occur to them. Because they’ve emptied out all the meaning that term holds and simply made it their epithet of choice, something referring to a corrupted attitude or metaphysical state of mind held by the abstract forces of domination.
The idea that the demand for civil rights, what all those “heads cracked in Selma” struggled for, or the demand of the global poor and oppressed to freely secure their livelihoods through gainful employment, are anything BUT liberal is completely asinine. These authors mask their contempt for the Civil Rights movement with feigned sympathy by casting people who risked their lives as victims mistakenly pursuing in vain the very privileges enumerated by the Evil Founding Fathers of the Empire. They want to say that what those in the CRM were really expressing, perhaps unbeknownst to them, was a revolt against the “liberal world order,” the “liberal cosmos,” the “liberal form of life,” because that’s consonant with their own stupid, inevitably liberal “politics” (aka morality). They don’t even want to deal with the liberal pre-history of their OWN anarchist tradition! And for that reason they are as liable as anyone to remain stuck there forever.
platypus1917.org
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