“Democracy,” “modernity.” Yup, there’s the liberalism. They want to defend “rights” because they know that civil protections legitimise their legal system; which is fundamentally oriented toward capital and private property. Civil rights are a negotiation that utilizes the state monopoly of violence to hold vulnerable groups hostage.
“Modernity,” being associated with the moral right of human recognition carries with it a fundamentally settler-colonial conception of time that naturalizes this system by positioning it as the inevitable consequence of human organizing (“progress”).
They’re manoeuvring criticism of fascism into support of liberalism, which is not oppositional to fascism and is the only real thing that keeps these groups vulnerable in the first place. fuck me dude so tired of this shit.
“Democracy,” “modernity.” Yup, there’s the liberalism. They want to defend “rights” because they know that civil protections legitimise their legal system; which is fundamentally oriented toward capital and private property. Civil rights are a negotiation that utilizes the state monopoly of violence to hold vulnerable groups hostage.
“Modernity,” being associated with the moral right of human recognition carries with it a fundamentally settler-colonial conception of time that naturalizes this system by positioning it as the inevitable consequence of human organizing (“progress”).
They’re manoeuvring criticism of fascism into support of liberalism, which is not oppositional to fascism and is the only real thing that keeps these groups vulnerable in the first place. fuck me dude so tired of this shit.