tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post5080303140915636130..comments2024-03-25T07:51:47.758-04:00Comments on Thoughts On Economics: Conservatism According to Corey RobinRobert Vienneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748118392842775431noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-42383156352053400342016-03-05T16:27:37.300-05:002016-03-05T16:27:37.300-05:00I have a slightly different reading, because C Rob...I have a slightly different reading, because C Robin uses the word "emancipation".<br /><br />His argument to me seems that reactionaries are such because they react against attempts to gain emancipation. It could be emancipation against hierarchy, but that is not necessarily the case. There is a subtle but important difference between fighting for emancipation in general and against hierarchies in particular.<br /><br />My impression is that such an argument was created by C Robin to justify the turn of the Democratic party and in general the USA "official left" into a party that fights for non-economic causes based around "identity"; that politics in general is about freedom of identity rather than economics.<br /><br />C Robin therefore mentions very often the politics of sexual and gender emancipation, that indeed seems to be far more important to the Democratic party today than the politics of class and economics.<br /><br />That is the argument about politics being a fight about emancipation seems to me a poor cover for a shift of the Democratic party to a conservative, neoliberal position on economic issues.<br /><br />The argument than becomes that the first priority of a poorly paid homosexual, or female, or dark skinned, worker is not to become less poor, but to be less discriminated by their white male hetero oppressors, whether poor or wealthy; and this has as an important corollary that a wealthy homosexual, or female, or dark skinned person is as much as a poor one the victim of oppression, by all white male hetero people, whether poor or rich.<br /><br />That's a very convenient position for a party that has become economically conservative.<br />AboutEmancipationnoreply@blogger.com