the claims to fairness, opportunity, the rule of law, reason, and freedom promised by liberalism are cruelly belied and betrayed by the reality of a form of rapacious capitalism

full of trenchant fury and vengeful promises

Marx's excoriating analysis of the bourgeois response to the Paris Commune

a fulsome pornographic bouquet of neopatriarchal tropes

the officious viciousness of the Nazi occupation of the country

The coin here might be read as a material allegory, or in some sense a synecdoche (a small part which represents the whole) of capital itself.

Michel Foucault, for one, identified the ship as the heterotopia par excellence: the space that is both within and outside the social order

a bullyboy paean to "the West" as the seat of progress in an otherwise dark world.

the free market represents the apogee of the Enlightenment

takes as doxa that liberal democratic states are less warlike