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20.04.202504:06
"The reason I take a different stance towards liberals and liberalism than most American socialists is because of how attuned I am to the *American* context, to our history.
The reality is that America never completed our liberal revolution.
Despite being one of the two prototypical liberal revolutions of the 18th century, the American Revolution had at its core a deep contradiction—the peculiarities of colonial rebellion against the metropole led our aspiring national bourgeoisie to ally with an aspiring national aristocracy: the slaveholding tyrants of the South. The rationalizing and leveling ambitions of capital had to compromise with the forces of fixed caste prejudice embodied by the nascent Slave Power.
It created a compromised, weakened liberalism, infected with a festering abscess that gradually turned septic over the course of the 19th century, until we were forced to treat it in the Civil War.
But even then, though liberal capital did force the surrender of the Slave Power, we never fully removed the reservoir of infection. The compromised constitutional order written hand-in-hand with the progenitors of this would-be slave empire was never sufficiently reformed. The institutions they used in the 19th century to dominate federal politics—the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court—were left intact. And the anachronistic ideology of racial caste remained, too, allowed to re-embody itself in the institutions of Jim Crow.
The grand sweep of American history is the story of this reservoir of infection in the civil body periodically re-inflaming, asserting itself in counterrevolutions great and small. We’re living through one of the worst right now. It’s desperate to fetter our society with chains of heritable, immutable caste hierarchy: race, sex, national origin, and so on. The dream of an irrational, iron-clad order of ancient prejudice remains alive and deadly.
And it makes socialism very difficult at best—and probably impossible. You can’t unify a working class divided against itself by lines of caste, made real and material by an unequal society. Whenever the skeletal hand of the Slave Power’s ideology is able to tighten its grip on the throat of this nation, equality is choked. Our dream of socialism is strangled in the crib.
We do have to finish our liberal revolution. We have to actually sterilize, once and for all, this recurrent and deadly infection. We can’t skip this step. I know we’re impatient to do so, and we look to other contexts to understand what our revolution might look like, but we have to pay attention to *our* historical context.
The Slave Power didn’t only love and champion the inequality of racial caste—it was also enamored of patriarchy, of rural poverty, of an arrested national development. It championed every type of hierarchical relation, it abhorred all human agency and class mobility, except for the plantation tyrants themselves.
And that ideology is still at the heart of American reaction. It isn’t dead. The institutions that midwifed it still structure our conditional order.
So, yes, socialists aren’t liberals, but we have a strategic and moral imperative to help complete an American liberal revolution and finally remove this social rot. If we don’t, the dream of American socialism will remain forever just that."
https://twitter.com/hecubian_devil/status/1913464617365540919
The reality is that America never completed our liberal revolution.
Despite being one of the two prototypical liberal revolutions of the 18th century, the American Revolution had at its core a deep contradiction—the peculiarities of colonial rebellion against the metropole led our aspiring national bourgeoisie to ally with an aspiring national aristocracy: the slaveholding tyrants of the South. The rationalizing and leveling ambitions of capital had to compromise with the forces of fixed caste prejudice embodied by the nascent Slave Power.
It created a compromised, weakened liberalism, infected with a festering abscess that gradually turned septic over the course of the 19th century, until we were forced to treat it in the Civil War.
But even then, though liberal capital did force the surrender of the Slave Power, we never fully removed the reservoir of infection. The compromised constitutional order written hand-in-hand with the progenitors of this would-be slave empire was never sufficiently reformed. The institutions they used in the 19th century to dominate federal politics—the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court—were left intact. And the anachronistic ideology of racial caste remained, too, allowed to re-embody itself in the institutions of Jim Crow.
The grand sweep of American history is the story of this reservoir of infection in the civil body periodically re-inflaming, asserting itself in counterrevolutions great and small. We’re living through one of the worst right now. It’s desperate to fetter our society with chains of heritable, immutable caste hierarchy: race, sex, national origin, and so on. The dream of an irrational, iron-clad order of ancient prejudice remains alive and deadly.
And it makes socialism very difficult at best—and probably impossible. You can’t unify a working class divided against itself by lines of caste, made real and material by an unequal society. Whenever the skeletal hand of the Slave Power’s ideology is able to tighten its grip on the throat of this nation, equality is choked. Our dream of socialism is strangled in the crib.
We do have to finish our liberal revolution. We have to actually sterilize, once and for all, this recurrent and deadly infection. We can’t skip this step. I know we’re impatient to do so, and we look to other contexts to understand what our revolution might look like, but we have to pay attention to *our* historical context.
The Slave Power didn’t only love and champion the inequality of racial caste—it was also enamored of patriarchy, of rural poverty, of an arrested national development. It championed every type of hierarchical relation, it abhorred all human agency and class mobility, except for the plantation tyrants themselves.
And that ideology is still at the heart of American reaction. It isn’t dead. The institutions that midwifed it still structure our conditional order.
So, yes, socialists aren’t liberals, but we have a strategic and moral imperative to help complete an American liberal revolution and finally remove this social rot. If we don’t, the dream of American socialism will remain forever just that."
https://twitter.com/hecubian_devil/status/1913464617365540919
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