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/246/ Why Isn’t There Revolution? ft. Vivek Chibber

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What Is the Difference Between Liberalism and Identity Politics?

iamoverstruck by you saying that to days, or the post 19 80 liberalismin somehowis is similar to pre 18 50 liberalism. Pre 18 50 liberalism was a strong argument for freedom, even if it was a kind of bourgeois liberties and expanding that part of that realm of possibility. To day it doesn't seem to me, you know, it's a very illiberal liberalism which doesn't really expand the realm of freedom against the old aristocracy,. The professional manageral class is fighting against. It's really just a narrow defence of its own positioning. Identity politics to day is lined up squarely against redistribution. You didn't see this in the nineties. In the nineties it

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