I vacillate constantly between wanting an alliance with liberalism and wanting to reject its legacy entirely. I think it's a very unique ideological position that's often denied the credit it deserves, but simultaneously disgusted by what it's willing to accommodate itself with.
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I've been reading Amanda Anderson's Bleak Liberalism and I think I agree with her that liberalism has a deep, poignant and rare appreciation of the tragic. I actually enjoyed it much more than Capitalist Realism, a similar book. She's doing good work.
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My tentative takeaway is: while we have to be critical, perhaps fanatically critical, of liberalism, we have to simultaneously acknowledge why it's so successful. And we can't delude ourselves with fantasies of its demise. No! Liberalism's decline is precisely its ascendance.
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Anderson advances a compelling theory that liberalism, with its recognition of the tragic, has always ached for its own decline, to run its aspirations against the world's limits. This could be the natural state of liberalism as the ascendant ideology, and it could endure.
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Interesting way of looking at it. Does this account take the 'successor ideology'/tumblrism as a form of liberalism or not? If it isn't, it seems to indicate a real crisis of equity vs difference, but if it is then it threatens itself due to its radical erosion of social bonds?
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