Liberal communists pursue profit while deploying the rhetoric of social responsibility

Evidence

It’s striking how the practice of many of the immobilizers is a kind of inversion of that of another group who also count themselves heirs of 68: the so called ‘liberal communists’ such as George Soros and Bill Gates who combine rapacious pursuit of profit with the rhetoric of ecological concern and social responsibility. … Being smart means being dynamic and nomadic, and against centralized bureaucracy; believing in dialogue and cooperation as against central authority; in flexibility as against routine; culture and knowledge as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and autopoiesis as against fixed hierarchy. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 60

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘liberal communist’ type via Zizek’s description of ‘being smart’.
• XREF: connects to: Liberal philanthropists combine profit-seeking with charity rhetoric — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 59; Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 61; Neoliberal rhetoric evokes free markets while quietly relying on a strong state — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 26 (+2 more)

Related

• Liberal philanthropists combine profit-seeking with charity rhetoric (similarity 0.88)
• Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal communism is now capitalism’s dominant ideology, not its corrective. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Liberal philanthropists combine profit-seeking with charity rhetoric #exemplifies (0.92) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 59
• Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 61
• Neoliberal rhetoric evokes free markets while quietly relying on a strong state #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 26
• Human-rights rhetoric functions as core neoconservative propaganda, not liberal exclusivity #exemplifies (0.75)
• Liberal human-rights rhetoric racializes by infantilizing those it claims to help #exemplifies (0.72) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 483