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t because of the challenge mostly rhetorical to various sorts of norms and institutions according to the oxford english dictionary since the eighteenth century liberal has connoted open minded and tolerant a characteristic of an individual personality this obviously informs its political uses especially by self described liberals a liberal is someone appreciative of racial ethnic and religious diversity along these lines we find that the liberal favors social reform and a degree of state intervention in matters of economics and social justice a meaning that accords with the use of liberal in us politics but the next political definition supporting or advocating individual rights civil liberties and political and social reform tending towards individual freedom or democracy with little state intervention complicates matters by invoking a parallel and in some ways antagonistic political tradition this is what we might call the libertarian definition of the term while sharing the concept s basic orientation towards the individual as the basis of political life their implications especially in economic affairs can be quite different but the designation liberal is really more a value judgment than a coherent political tradition its connotation of generosity princes are munificent friends are generous a patron liberal explains a nineteenth century thesaurus is used negatively in right wing caricatures of the profligate liberal politician but it is embraced by bleeding heart liberals meanwhile liberal in the sense of unrestrained when we describe a libertine s loose behavior or a trade agreement s rules on capital movement shadows the second libertarian meaning and lends itself to classical liberal or neoliberal at the same time liberal as unrestrained can be negatively repurposed as undisciplined as in left and right wing mockery of the liberal as sentimental and soft headed on the subject of soft headed all this imprecision is compounded by the fashionable adjective illiberal whether one is describing campus radicals demonstrating too noisily against university policies nationalist politicians mass arresting their critics left wing politicians threatening to hold too many referendums or people online being mean illiberal is usually a useful pundit s term for that shit i don t like the negative prefix il calls to mind one of its definitions ill bred an echo that to my ear heightens the anachronistic sound of the word and underscores the elitism its use covers for in the sorts of places the financial times the new york review of books foreign affairs the atlantic etc where one encounters it most often but it s not just my ear derived from the latin illiberalis sordid illiberalism s snobbery is built into its etymology owning the libs october 22 2020 john patrick leary leave a comment as i work through the new material for the new edition of keywords i m going to occasionally post here some excerpts outtakes and other material that comes up liberalism writes raymond williams is a doctrine of possessive individualism possessive individualism was coined in 1964 by c b macpherson a canadian socialist and political theorist who described it as a unifying idea of the political thought of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries during the long struggle for a more liberal state in england to cut a long story short he argues that human freedom came to be seen as self possession a free man was the proprietor of his own person macpherson put it in more contemporary terms this might be something like your own boss this self proprietorship is what makes us free and human and politics is the medium by which individual proprietors peacefully regulate their claims with other self proprietors possessive individualism understands the freedom of the individual along the lines of the market the freedom and humanity of a person depends on his freedom to pursue their own self interest through relations with others and without dependence upon others as macpherson argues this takes a relatively recent european contrivance private property and ownership and treats it as a natural universal trait the basis of what it is to be human this is a conceptual problem that becomes a serious political crisis he writes in the twentieth century as the rise of class societies and a working class political movement throw into sharp relief the gap between metaphorical and literal ownership if we are all proprietors of ourselves in a class stratified market society some people own more of themselves than others which brings us to owning the libs a metaphorical treatment of ownership of another as domination in most contexts this use of own is obviously ironic and even self deprecating without any trace of literal subjugation or anything one declares oneself owned when you re a good sport about another s joke but when used in earnest as incredibly it still sometimes is on the right own the libs comes all the way back to the concept of possessive individualism here as in possessive individualism ownership is used figuratively but it derives from a property relationship that is taken as a natural fact that is that there is something eternal and natural about the individual ownership of and trade in land goods and human labor as commodities video game conventions where the verb to own comes from make an excellent example of this doctrine of individuality players typically play as discrete individual characters who they customize in various ways as a surrogate self a unique name hair color a set of skills weapons or other attributes even games in which users participate together still operate as a loose collection of individuals when i briefly ventured into online gaming i was regularly berated by my supposed teammates with whom i was ostensibly an equal but who were the proprietors of better endowed selves an experience uncannily similar to everyday political life to own another player is to dominate them if man is free and human by virtue of his sole proprietorship of his own person and if political society is a contrivance to regulate the interaction of these proprietors then the greatest political coup would be to disrupt the self proprietorship of one s enemies they who cannot properly own themselves must therefore be owned wielding the weapon of peaceful protest may 31 2020 october 26 2020 john patrick leary 1 comment an addendum to protests descending into violence by now the world knows the name george floyd for this we have the young people fighting with police in cities across the country to thank but the deep and abiding love that pundits and tv hosts have for peaceful protest which they profess as they narrate helicopter footage of riot cops in formation and burning police cars live from their studio always misses this obvious point every riot and uprising in recent years gets the same treatment at least on the media peaceful protests descended into violence in baltimore five years ago successful journalist impersonator wolf blitzer implored activists to stick to the script on respectable activism i just want to hear you say he nervously asked in one interview that there should be peaceful protests not violent protests in the tradition of dr martin luther king as mychal denzel smith wrote then at the nation this idyll of a peaceful king is ahistorical not only for reducing the entirety of civil rights history to one of its leaders but in its misapprehension of king s tactics he writes the civil rights movement was not successful because the quiet dignity of nonviolent protests appealed to the morality of the white public rather smith argues nonviolent protest tactics provoked white violence embarrassing political elites at home and the country at large abroad in a cold war context where the united states purported to lead the free world given how much these historical circumstances have changed smith rightly asked whether tactics should not evolve as well beyond this important point the common terminology is also wrong given the frequency with which peaceful protest is invoked as a part of king and the movement s legacy you would think it had a history in civil rights activism but king almost never said it a quick search of the king center archives turns up only one result for the phrase the albany movement statement a document that laid out the position of the 1962 albany ga campaign in which king lent support to local naacp and sncc leaders one of the movement s demands was the establishment of the right of peaceful protest under the first amendment peaceful protest also appears once in taylor branch s well known history of the civil rights movement parting the waters also in reference to the albany campaign the albany movement statement 7 1 62 via http www thekingcenter org archive document albany movement statement on one of the rare occasions when king personally uttered the words peaceful protest as in his 1962 speech to the retail wholesale and department store union district 65 in monticello ny also in reference to albany he invokes it almost ironically to show the depths of reaction in the georgia town that was the site of king s biggest defeat the segregationists are so vicious they wouldn t even allow that he seems to say more than a thousand people have gone to jail he said of the albany campaign merely because they want to be free and engage in peaceful protest in order to make that freedom possible in his own writings king was much more likely to use the phrase nonviolent direct action which was an expression of an evolving tactic nonviolence exercised provocatively rather than a character trait or moral state that must never change like peaceful indeed as smith pointed out nonviolent demonstrations were not at all peaceful as he wrote in the introduction to 1963 s why we can t wait on the 100th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation writes king freedom had a dull ring a mocking emptiness when in their time in the short life spans of this boy and girl buses had stopped rolling in montgomery sit inners were jailed and beaten freedom riders were brutalized and murdered dogs fangs were bared in birmingham and in brooklyn new york there were certain kinds of construction jobs for whites only peace is a much more ambiguous word than nonviolent whose grammar lays out its ground rules nonviolence is a tactic for unsettling the status quo peaceful the way the joe bidens and wolf blitzers use it is the status quo they use peace in the way that parents police and other authority figures use it peace and quiet for example or disturbing the peace to the degree that talking heads think about it at all they are thinking of peace as the quiet life that must not be upset new in the new republic may 4 2020 john patrick leary leave a comment on moderate and the myth of a center lane https newrepublic com article 157167 airy ambivalence moderate politician joe biden on essential and the essential question essential for whom https newrepublic com article 157544 slippery definition essential worker coronavirus pandemic who believes in the future march 16 2020 john patrick leary leave a comment just published in the new republic and written in anger and disappointment on wednesday the day after joe biden won michigan s primary in the days that followed we ve been treated to a round the clock advertisement for the urgency of medicare for all and the dysfunction of a social and economic system built for endless competition and consumption generational arguments usually seem suspect to me predicated on some version of the cliche about young people having a heart and older people having a head or else on some ahistorical faith in inevitable progress without political struggle once all the backwards old people die off and the progressive youth take over then things will really change but it s impossible to avoid the generational dynamics in this presidential race and it s equally hard to avoid being enraged by them a return to the normal pace of the years before trump has been biden s biggest pitch but as the new republic s kate aronoff has pointed out there s no normal to return to where the climate is concerned there is no resurrectable past there is only a rapidly approaching future which many of us have come to anticipate with a sense of dread many of those who voted willingly or not for biden s climate plan which calls for carbon neutrality by 2050 decades too late will never have to live with its consequences nor of course will biden himself our problem the problem of people under 45 or so is that we will live with these consequences if you are obliged to think much further ahead than the next four years it is impossible to be both honest and optimistic about the future https newrepublic com article 156888 bidens alienating optimism future utm_content buffer40929 utm_medium social utm_source twitter com utm_campaign buffer airbnb the magazine january 13 2020 john patrick leary leave a comment most of what you ever wanted to know about airbnb magazine in jacobin i read airbnb magazine so you don t have to because a lot of airbnb s workers are actually property owners whether professional landlords or owners of real estate portfolios airbnb labors very hard to do what comes more easily to services like uber putting a human face on twenty first century labor exploitation on other sharing platforms your interaction with the worker who powers it all is unavoidable you are in your uber driver s car after all and you can chat with them you might even enjoy their company but alone in an airbnb apartment in an unfamiliar city with only live laugh love posters for company the fantasy of a real estate subleasing firm that brings us together becomes harder to sustain into the aesthetic void of airbnb steps airbnb magazine podcasts cont d november 21 2019 november 21 2019 john patrick leary leave a comment an oldie but a goodie i talked with patrick sheehan for the new books network about keywords check it out here new column in the new republic november 19 2019 john patrick leary leave a comment new posts on terrible words may appear here from time to time but for now they re in my new language column at the new republic called loose talk here they are so far progressive policy populism the economy green podcasts august 27 2019 august 27 2019 john patrick leary leave a comment i was very excited to get to talk to some of the most excellent podcast hosts on the left recently katie halper gabe pacheco and dan denvir listen to my discussion with katie and gabe here https actifypress com 228 the new language of capitalism with john patrick leary kthalps and dan denvir one of the best interviewers in the game talked to me on the dig listen here keywords of capitalism with john patrick leary posts navigation older posts blog at wordpress com keywords the new language of capitalism blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed 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