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Radical Liberalism: Charles W. Mills’s Challenge to Liberalism’s Haters
At this point, the actual moment of Occupy Wall Street seems an eon ago, and reading an article that uses Occupy for an opening hook produces a feeling almost of quaintness. Or wistfulness: “The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement provides an opportunity unprecedented in decades to build a broad democratic movement to challenge plutocracy, patriarchy, and white supremacy in the United States.” That was Charles W. Mills in 2012, in the essay I’ll be talking about today, “Occupy Liberalism! Or, Ten Reasons Why Liberalism Cannot Be Retrieved for Radicalism (And Why They’re All Wrong).”[1]
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