Sublime

The endless self-radicalization of democracy predicted by Alexis de Tocqueville nearly two hundred years ago has come to pass with unerring and unnerving accuracy.

Mestmäcker retient de Schmitt la nécessité d’assumer la nature explicitement politique du projet néolibéral de dépolitisation de l’économie. Il est soutenu dans cette position par un autre néolibéral de la deuxième génération, Erich Hoppmann.

Megapolitical transitions are never popular, because they antiquate painstakingly acquired intellectual capital and confound established moral imperatives. They are not undertaken by popular demand, but in response to changes in the external conditions that alter the logic of violence in the local setting. Transitions to new ways of organizing

The second wave of moralism was the radical politics that washed over universities in America, Europe, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. Radical reformers usually want to believe that human nature is a blank slate on which any utopian vision can be sketched.