it's generally accepted that the liberal bourgeois try to be socially liberal, but they eventually fail at this. The liberal bourgeois, (and by extension the liberal petit-bourgeois and labor aristocracy) often subscribe to identity politics, but ditch those politics once a minority, be that a racial or romantic minority, start to agitate beyond elections or police approved protest. This became apparent during the summer uprisings this year, when BLM bumper-sticker liberals began to call for incrementalism, instead of the direct action of the protests. This is nothing new of course, this has been happening since at least the 1950s.

Bourgeois liberals and their supporters also tend to change from social liberalism to social conservatism when they feel threatened by the collective action of various minorities, this is apparent from Twitter to the national stage, when liberal politicians do not hesitate to send in the troops to quash a protest or when twitter liberals devolve to dogwhistles. To me, it seems that the only thing social liberals consistently believe in is the accumulation of capital, especially through rent-seeking.

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The ones that really consider liberal philosophy wind up working their way to some form of socialism (like Rawls at the end of his life lol) as liberal philosophy really makes no sense otherwise.