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liberalism is currently deemed at risk

[...] Liberalism is currently deemed at risk by the advance of the far right; as critics of liberalism, should we not be rejoicing? No, because what is really at risk is not liberalism, but the principle of solidarity that some liberalism contains. Instead of dying, liberalism is merely becoming mo…

—p.165 Salvage #5: Contractions ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author
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people should stay where they are

The specific message of ‘with and without us’ reveals the danger of entrenching the existence of categories of people who have a ‘natural’ privilege in occupying a certain space, merely by their nationality. It accepts the fixing of some people as citizens or nationals and some people as migrants, …

—p.164 ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author
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who is and who is not a citizen

But the message feels flawed. Maybe because it contains traces of the neoliberal economic discourse according to which migrants should be welcome because we need them to support our aging population and because they boost our economy, as multiple studies show year after year. This argument is too e…

—p.162 ‘With or Without You’: Naturalising Migrants and the Never-Ending Tragedy of Liberalism (161) missing author
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all the hours stolen for gas bills misc/poetry

[...] And, friends
It is rotten, to have had history pull you up and spit you
Out again, for a few good moments, for nothing more
Than debt and waged servitude, all the hours stolen for gas bills,
Their world not built for you, its monstrous incursions
Of spectacular boredom, the she…

—p.158 On Defeat (158) missing author