Self-styled radical critics today are actually liberals in weak form

Evidence

Michaels is in effect impolitely suggesting that critics today who imagine themselves to be radicals are really nothing more than liberals, in all the weak and “handwringing” senses of that word. Michaels thus offers us an opportunity for “criticism/self-criticism” of a significant and even urgent type at a moment when the self-definitions of the Left are at best confused, if not aimless. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the reader’s cognitive mapping of their own position — where they sit between liberalism and radicalism in the world system. — connects to: Radicalism among critics is reduced to abstract prestige within an allotted pattern — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 228; All anti-liberal ideologies reject pluralism and therefore loathe political parties — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 197