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mk  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Theopolitics in Amurica

I think, by their nature the leftists look more populous, but a large portion of the tools and communities that are enabling the growth of State-independent culture have been generated by folk that probably identify more with libertarians or perhaps see themselves as neoliberals.





user-inactivated  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes; I've read every post in this thread and the insistence that it's the "radical left" that will overthrow/rebuild the state is confusing me a bit. If anything the members of the radical left as it existed 40-60 years ago have migrated to left-libertarianism (which may be the term you're searching for, because it's where the so-called neoliberals might intersect with classical liberalism).

Nowadays, I associate the phrase radical left with extreme socialism. The furthest left political parties in the world are all in essentially socialist countries.

b_b  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Nowadays, I associate the phrase radical left with extreme socialism.

When was there ever a time when the radical left wasn't comprised of socialist and communists? They invented the radical left in the 19th c.

user-inactivated  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

An argument could be made for 1964-1968. Not that those student movements ever had cohesive, unhypocritical agendas, but...

theadvancedapes  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be honest, that is a development that I am completely unaware of, although I should read up on it. But it's clear that the state is getting pulled apart from many different movements. Although it is not clear yet how it will happen, I think it is now safe to say that the liberal democracy as manifest in the nation-state does not represent any type of an "end of history".

kleinbl00  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fukiyama was resoundingly discredited by the Serbian conflict and the ensuing 20 years of history.