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[BEST OF] American Exceptionalism and Innocence: Liberal Ideology and American Creation Myths

Revolutionary Left Radio

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The Purity Politics

On the left this impulse toward purity is really an impulse away from dealing with contradiction and it's an impulse awayfrom dealing with revolution as a process. i don't want the messy bullshit of having to go through the process of building a revolution so therefore every attempt that wasn't immediately perfect in my ideological eyes is to be dismissed and denigrated, he says. "You're playing into you know american mythology as it currently stands...you're really buying into a lot of bullying"

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