Philosophy Tube just completed a fantastic video series on liberalism, and I highly recommend it for people wanting to understand the ideology of the status quo.
Part 1 discusses how liberalism contextualizes violence in relation to other ideologies
Part 2 discusses the interconnected history of liberalism and capitalism
Part 3 discusses neoliberalism as an ongoing political trend since the 1980s
Part 4 discusses the major structural flaws inherent to liberalism
“Fascists know that they can count on Liberals to give them the room to groom and recruit… Liberalism exists to justify capitalism.”
This is an excellent series, timed at less than 40 minutes. A must see.
His two part series on the refugee crisis is also really good:
“Liberalism exists to justify capitalism. Left-wing ideologies, like socialism, are incompatible with capitalism. But capitalism is compatible with fascism. And so liberalism slides right a lot easier than it slides left.”
Radicalism is a form of political thought and action that tries to address problems at their roots. Instead of advocating for reform, or simply fixing the symptoms of social problems, radicalism asks us to find the basis of those problems and to eliminate it.
Radicalism claims that only by…
Radicalism is a form of political thought and action that tries to address problems at their roots. Instead of advocating for reform, or simply fixing the symptoms of social problems, radicalism asks us to find the basis of those problems and to eliminate it.
Radicalism…
A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
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Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale. (via mysharona1987) Liberalism focuses on which direction the rat “chooses” to go. A radical critique deconstructs the maze itself, why it exists and for what purpose, and explains the rat’s choices as constitutive limits of the maze. (via america-wakiewakie) |
Radical Peasant: We've got to get rid of this feudal system, it's killing us. You with us?
Liberal Peasant: No, no, just wait till we get a new Lord. I hear his son has some good views on crop rotation.
