Liberal philanthropists combine profit-seeking with charity rhetoric

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. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘liberal communism’ as a distinct 68-heir position combining rapacious profit with socially responsible rhetoric.
• XREF: Ties to the earlier chapter claim that ‘Charity’s ethical immediacy suspends politics and systemic change’. — connects to: Liberal communism now serves as capitalism’s dominant ideology — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 61; Cause-marketing inoculates itself from criticism by pairing profit with charity — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1463; Neoliberalism reshapes cultural incentives by prioritizing extreme profit seeking (+7 more)

Related

• Liberal communists pursue profit while deploying the rhetoric of social responsibility (similarity 0.88)
• Uplift philanthropy blended charity with cultural condescension and anti-socialism lectures (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Cause-marketing inoculates itself from criticism by pairing profit with charity #exemplifies (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1463
• Venture philanthropy reframes justice as enlightened self-interest for markets. #exemplifies (0.90) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 423
• Economic justifications let financiers view profit-seeking as serving the common good #corroborates (0.85)
• Charitable donations and grants are being reframed as investments requiring measurable social returns #expands (0.80) — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 69
• Prosperity preachers profited openly while facing churchwide condemnation #jokes-about (0.78) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 612
• Neoliberalism reshapes cultural incentives by prioritizing extreme profit seeking #expands (0.75)
• Charitable organizations become ends in themselves, their stated aims mere pretexts #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1732