How Liberalism Enables the Far-Right

Описание: Scrubbed the title and description of the the "F word" which, apparently, Youtube doesn't want us using. But we know what it is. In many parts of the world we're living it, seeing it rise, meanwhile the establishment is unable or unwilling to do anything about it. There is also a lack of grassroots organizing or a coherent leftist strategy to counter it.

A part of the problem is, in my opinion, a lack of diagnosis of the origins of the problem, the structures and ideologies that make it possible. One of the major aspects of this is private property, a thing that, although rarely mentioned in most discussions, is central to the functioning of capitalism.

So through a historical, theoretical and political lense, I look at private property as the through-line that connects liberalism and the "f-word", and presents an avenue for something different to emerge.
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Bibliography:
Clara Zetkin, The Struggle Against Fascism, 1923
Maurizio Lazzarato, Capitalism Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution, 2021
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 2004
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What is Property?, 1840
Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1935
Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and its Discontents, 2022
James Madison, The Federalist Papers #10, 1787

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Music:
Shubert's Opus 100 Trio in e flat
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Chapters
00:00 - Prologue
03:00 - Introduction
09:45 - Part 1 - Liberalism and its Discontents
22:50 - Part 2 - The Illiberalism of Private Property
37:30 - Part 3 - Socialism or Barbarism
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