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Second, the practical pursuit of one’s civil rights consistently contravenes expectations of success. Boggs came to the conclusion that integrating into class society, learning how to be a respectable bourgeois citizen, did not protect many black citizens from becoming “outsiders.” Moreover, it encouraged the justification of the existence of “the outsiders” as an inevitable feature of modern life. I take this to be the ethical critique.
Race, Time, and Utopia
William M. Paris
As exemplified by generic drugs, genericity is often manifested in namelessness. Conventionally regarded as a standard of normality, the unmarked therefore often remains nameless, as only that which deviates from the standard is considered remark-able enough to actually be labeled.
Taken for Granted
Eviatar Zerubavel
So why are newly radicalizing liberals so susceptible to ultraleftism? ... First, because it allows them to continue their sense of superiority felt that they had from being the furthest left in the room and most moral for most of their lives. ... Secondly, because newly radicalized liberals develop an obsession with “radical tactics.” ... Thirdly, a skepticism of mass politics. ... Fourth, a view of “the left” as a consumer subculture and not organizations. __Many newly radicalized liberals approach politics as if it's about what podcast you listen to or magazine you subscribe to. This thinking promotes acting as a fandom rather than an organization.__
The Liberal-to-Ultraleft Pipeline: Breaking the Cycle
washingtonsocialist.mdcdsa.org
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