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Liberalism: A Counter-History Domenico Losurdo
Publisher: Verso Books

Alternatively, if you think Nozick is right in opposing all redistribution, you .. Dec 22, 2011 - Liberalism's Exclusions and Expansions (print only). (on Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History). How, then, can it be a test of liberalism? He argued that “nothing in decades of Middle East history suggests Jews would be equal citizens in a state dominated by Arabs or Palestinians” (“Why the ASA boycott is both disingenuous and futile,” Al Jazeera America, 23 December 2013). Feb 13, 2014 - Yet today's so-called progressive and liberal Zionists employ precisely the same kinds of claims to counter the growing movement, initiated by Palestinians themselves, for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. Depending on what theory of history you subscribe to, liberalism is a branch of rational thinking applied to politics, an expression of certain underlying ethical values, or a bourgeois conceit that capitalism can be tamed. Nov 20, 2013 - If you share Kant's claim that autonomy requires providing for the poor but prohibits further redistribution, then you would have provided a principled justification for sufficientarian liberalism. Nov 27, 2013 - Obamacare, lest we forget, isn't a particularly liberal reform; it originated as a right-wing counter-proposal to Hillarycare. It may seem obvious that it would be harmful, but we often get evidence for counter-intuitive things happening in nature and society.