There is no real democracy without these things and we don't have these things anymore therefore we no longer have real democracy.
restoration of individual rights requires abandoning group-based (i.e. identitarian) politics
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restoration of discourse-based democratic process requires confronting disagreement rather than shunning those who break orthodoxy
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communitarian and identitarian currents in left discourse make this nearly impossible on an epistemic level.
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whereas authoritarian and conformist currents in right discourse also make this nearly impossible on an epistemic level
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despite this I do see reform as possible, urgently needed, and must be led by a new generation free from institutionalized dysfunction
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de-institutionalizing the left is the only way forward I see. left movements based out of the University are doomed. Sorry Prof.
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which isn't to say that those situated in the academy don't have crucial role and duty.
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but until the discourse is freed from the institutional setting it will never be freed from its institutional corruption
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in other words: keep blogging. we need discourse leaders that aren't shackled to the university for their career and paycheck
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