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Was watching Rick Roderick lectures and holy shit the framing of Utilitarianism and deontology as bourgeois morality is actually so fucking interesting and compelling. The reduction to the individualized atomized person doing actions independent from class analysis or power dynam
Always good to remember that politics come prior to ethics
Really hard to remember when every issue framed through the liberal lens, even by radicals. By adopting the wrong framework to explain the wrongness, they come off looking dogmatic about their conclusion. Not saying I’m better, because it’s nearly impossible for me to do too.
It’s just something that should change if people are going to accept lefty conclusions with good reasoning patterns. However I think there’s a big lack of lefty public figures that frankly have the theoretical background to understand much less explain why. (Imaging Vaush or
Hasan talking about how “the individual is an ideological construction” and building up their first principles lol)