
Authoritarianism is at heart of US capitalist 'liberal democracy' (with historian Aaron Good)
Geopolitical Economy Report
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The New Deal Is a Parapolitical Ideology of the Sovereign
Liberal myopia has made political science into an ideology of the sovereign because indisputable evidence for the existence of the sovereign is brushed away as pure fantasy or conspiracy. When we talk about this quote unquote security of a state being threatened what you're really talking about is the regime of property enforced for the elites in their eyes. Even your sort of avowed new liberals that are renewing their commitment specifically and very explicitly to property over all else are very comfortable forsaking other so-called freedoms they like to throw around when it is useful for them. It's always going to be able to justify accumulation infinite accumulation on behalf of elites for those ends.
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