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Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth (inthesetimes.com)
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[โ€“] return2ozma@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While presenting itself as the antidote to a rising fascist tide, establishment liberalism is in denial about the many ways it has been the cause or enabler of that tide.

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Chris Hedges saw this coming fifteen years ago in Death of the Liberal Class, but as an incalcitrant liberal he has no satisfactory answers, because for him real socialism is a bridge too far.