It seems like to me what all the major reactionary illiberal movements of the 21st century share in common. Whether it's Dugin's 4th political theory or the neoreactionaries within the US. All share in common the idea that the entirety of the enlightenment is a failure and the only alternative is to return to what preceded it.
It seems like to me they have essentially taken the liberal end of History that all alternatives have been tried and failed one step further. By concluding that liberalism is also a failure and the only alternative is to return to what came before liberalism. To tradition.
Honestly I genuinely think the liberal end of History that was declared at the end of the Cold war was one of the worst messages that could have been delivered on the global scale. Since it was a fundamentally conservative message that killed off any radical imagination. Any imagination of achieving a post scarcity future beyond capitalism.
What we need to do is revive the future. To show the possibility that we can achieve a post scarcity civilization beyond capitalism. If liberalism represents the present and reactionary illiberalism represents the past we must represent the future.
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