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Liberalism defines people as simply property-owners, narcissistic self-owners, choosers & consumers.
However, our natural orientation is to something outside ourselves fundamental to our being.
Liberalism, by contrast, denies the importance of relationships.
Liberalism defines people as simply property-owners, narcissistic self-owners, choosers & consumers.
However, our natural orientation is to something outside ourselves fundamental to our being.
Liberalism, by contrast, denies the importance of relationships.
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Thereby it encourages the undoing of community, locality & beauty – & also marriage & family.
And there is, naturally, money to be made out of all this. Husbands, wives, children & adolescents (this last an invention of the market) are more effective & exploitable -
Thereby it encourages the undoing of community, locality & beauty – & also marriage & family.
And there is, naturally, money to be made out of all this. Husbands, wives, children & adolescents (this last an invention of the market) are more effective & exploitable -
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consumers when they are isolated. Fluctuating identities & fluid preferences, including as to sexual orientation, consume still more, more often & more variously in terms of products & services
Hence this obsessive quest for gender at both the prosaic end of the everyday & -
consumers when they are isolated. Fluctuating identities & fluid preferences, including as to sexual orientation, consume still more, more often & more variously in terms of products & services
Hence this obsessive quest for gender at both the prosaic end of the everyday & -
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the more rarefied space of radical feminist theory.
This endless commutability of signifiers was what capitalism wanted all along, not merely profit or exchange-value.
the more rarefied space of radical feminist theory.
This endless commutability of signifiers was what capitalism wanted all along, not merely profit or exchange-value.
