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Neither Liberalism nor Reaction: Centering the 3-Way Fight

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Mark's Critique of Liberalism

i think one important thing to look at is that marks isn't saying that these values that liberalism claims to hold needs to be thrown out. The notion of equality, the notion of rights that liberalism tries to secure, is fundamentally atomistic. And it reinforces this capitalist sort of individualism. So fighting for rights within bourgeois democracy is always kind of a flawed idea because of the way that liberalism secures rights for the egoistic man. Rit liberalism cannot fulfil agaletarian commitments, it cannot secure rights. It's a rejection of liberalism's own shortcomings and its inability to do this. In philosophy, we call this an imminent critique,. He's critiquing liberalism on its own terms

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