
Authoritarianism is at heart of US capitalist 'liberal democracy' (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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Using Dark Power to Overcome Problems for Liberal Imperial Hegemony
The arab spring is an example of how this liberal liberalism can you it can utilize the legitimacy of open power democratic processes in order to advance their imperialist goals they can weaponize most everything. dark power is a way to overcome problems for liberal imperial hegemony okay because people might scoff at the notion of that but there's still like this idea that people want to at least pretending to adhere to right and then there's global meta norms about like the respect for sovereignty so you see has in that tweet as bad as it is at least he is paying tribute to these ideas. In reality or in practice we see that the deep state acts repeatedly to to illiberal ends, says efferson.
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