I conclude that Mills' reconstruction of liberalism is incomplete and urge him to develop a fully-fledged liberal theory of racial justice to complete it. The same should be true for white power, Mills suggests. This axiom is analogous to James Madison’s axiom of “the encroaching spirit of power.” Any liberal theorist that fails to take the encroaching spirit of power seriously meets the scorn of his peers. Sky Sports pundit and ex-Manchester United star Neville is no stranger to taking light-hearted shots at his colleague and Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher. Together these establish the need to integrate a new empirical axiom into liberal political theory: the axiom of the power of white supremacy in modernity, or the axiom of white power, for short. Gary Neville has been slammed by Liverpool fans after making a crude joke about Scousers. Search: Enlightenment 24 Monday Feb 2014. I focus on his (a) problematization of moral personhood, (b) theorization of white ignorance, and (c) conceptualization of white supremacy. Now On Kindle Tales of Love and Light Tales of Love and Light Here, Now, and All Ways. This article analyzes both Mills’ critique of liberalism and his attempt to reconstruct it into a political philosophy capable of adequately addressing racial injustice.
Mills seeks simultaneously to expose liberalism’s complicity with white supremacy and to transform liberalism into a source of antiracist political critique.
0 kommentar(er)
