The Liberal State Is Neutral Between Capitalism

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Language Always Pre-exists Us: It Is Always Already 'in Place', Waiting To Assign Us Our Places Within It.

Evil Is Unintelligible. It Is Just A Thing In Itself, Like Boarding A Crowded Commuter Train Wearing Only A Giant Boa Constrictor. There Is No Context Which Would Make It Explicable.

If There Are Indeed Any Iron Laws Of History, One Of Them Is Surely That In Any Major Crisis Of The Capitalist System, A Sector Of The Liberal Middle Class Will Shift To The Left, And Then Shift Smartly Back Again Once The Crisis Has Blown Over.

Ideology... Is A Kind Of Contemporary Mythology, A Realm Which Has Purged Itself Of Ambiguity And Alternative Possibility.