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mediated

The problem is rather that folk-political thinking is content to remain at (and even privileges) that level – of the transient, the small-scale, the unmediated and the particular. It takes these to be sufficient rather than simply necessary moments

—p.13 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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hegemony

folk politics [...] often rejects the project of hegemony, valuing withdrawal or exit rather than building a broad counter-hegemony

—p.11 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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neoliberalism

Neoliberalism has failed, social democracy is impossible, and only an alternative vision can bring about universal prosperity and emancipation.

—p.3 Introduction (1) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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parochial

The utopian potentials inherent in twenty-first-century technology cannot remain bound to a parochial capitalist imagination; they must be liberated by an ambitious left alternative.

—p.3 Introduction (1) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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internecine

We must create a Europe that does not squander its blood and strength on internecine conflict, but forms a compact unity.

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—p.297 Notes (262) by Yanis Varoufakis
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