How Liberals Rewrite Their Own History
Ian Dunt’s new book ‘How to Be a Liberal’ is part of a broader intellectual exercise to drape liberal history in comforting myths – ones which conceal its role in abetting imperialism, slavery and fascism.
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Aaron Bastani is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder of Novara Media. He is the author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism (Verso, 2019).
Ian Dunt’s new book ‘How to Be a Liberal’ is part of a broader intellectual exercise to drape liberal history in comforting myths – ones which conceal its role in abetting imperialism, slavery and fascism.
As the world faces deep political crisis, the liberal intelligentsia is increasingly lost – trapped in nostalgia for a past that never was and failing to understand the damage caused by economic policies they advocated.