Finishing Losurdo’s “Liberalism: A Counter-History”.
Biggest take-away: Fuck de Tocqueville.
Losurdo highlights the most contradictory elements of early liberalism so well that it baffles me how cognitively dissonant the champions of this ideology could be. Like imagine being a slave-owner or a colonial administrator (I’m sorry) and still believing you’re for the cause of liberty and non-despotism. Now, racism and white (especially western) supremacy does a significant amount of heaving lifting for justifying this behavior, but still, dude.
Seeing other people as lesser corrodes the mind 👍 without our obligations we are only carrion 👍👍 communism will win & slavery will be unthinkable to children everywhere outside educational material 👍👍👍
Finishing Losurdo’s “Liberalism: A Counter-History”.
Biggest take-away: Fuck de Tocqueville. Losurdo highlights the most contradictory elements of early liberalism so well that it baffles me how cognitively dissonant the champions of this ideology could be. Like imagine being a slave-owner or a colonial administrator (I’m sorry) and still believing you’re for the cause of liberty and non-despotism. Now, racism and white (especially western) supremacy does a significant amount of heaving lifting for justifying this behavior, but still, dude.
It’s called being evil bruh. Anyways great book 10/10
100% but even evil people need to live in reality a little bit
Seeing other people as lesser corrodes the mind 👍 without our obligations we are only carrion 👍👍 communism will win & slavery will be unthinkable to children everywhere outside educational material 👍👍👍
addendum: 👍👍👍👍👍