Liberal thought assumes the world should conform to liberal premises

Evidence

The issue for Bardsley, as it has been for liberal thinkers since J. S. Mill, is how to bring the world to liberalism, but never how to bring liberalism to the world. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 497

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A sharply compressible observation about how hegemonic frameworks treat their own premises as fixed and everything else as negotiable.
• XREF: connects to: Liberalism is not actually impartial in theory or practice — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 357; Liberalism means the deliberate self-limitation of governmental reason — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 262; Abstract liberal theory cannot substitute for confronting economic realities — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 342 (+3 more)