Comments on: Do I Really Look Like a Guy With a Plan? https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/07/29/do-i-really-look-like-a-guy-with-a-plan/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/07/29/do-i-really-look-like-a-guy-with-a-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-7739 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:35:55 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1675#comment-7739 As I hope was clear, I agree with that.

But I think progressives of other flavors–social democrats, Marxists, communalists, what have you– have a similarly difficult time bending their head around this point for other reasons.

]]> By: Russell Arben Fox https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2011/07/29/do-i-really-look-like-a-guy-with-a-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-7738 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:09:19 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=1675#comment-7738 Even the left, whatever that might be, is having a hard time bending its head around the situation, because for decades it has been accustomed to thinking of organizations on the right as fringes or cults that need to be monitored or controlled, or watched for their infiltration of legitimate politics.

Because they’re mostly neoliberals who assume that a deep technocratic consensus is always possible, that’s why! (An unfair accusation, I realize, but not one without some real, truthful relevance to the left-liberal-neoliberal discussion of the week before last, I think.)

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