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Single Idea 23133
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / g. Liberalism critique
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Full Idea
Critics say liberal cosmopolitanism is indifference to national loyalty, making them easily contemplate going elsewhere and, worse still, welcoming in the world through unsifted immigration.
Gist of Idea
Cosmopolitan liberals lack national loyalty, and welcome excessive immigration
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 2)
Book Ref
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.103
A Reaction
There is certainly some truth in this. Not all liberals are so cosmopolitan, though. It is interesting to observe whether people who retire stay in their old community or move to somewhere quite new.
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19 ideas
from Adam Gopnik
23124
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Liberal community is not blood ties or tradition, but shared choices, and sympathy for the losers
[Gopnik]
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23127
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Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups
[Gopnik]
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23128
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The opposite of liberalism is dogmatism
[Gopnik]
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23125
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Most good social changes are incremental, rather than revolutionary
[Gopnik]
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23126
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Conservatives often want peace, prosperity and tolerance, but not social fairness
[Gopnik]
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23132
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Conservatives believe obedience and rank are essential to social order
[Gopnik]
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23130
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Popular imperialism gives the poor the belief that their acts have world historical meaning
[Gopnik]
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23131
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Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility
[Gopnik]
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23129
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Right-wingers attack liberal faith in reason, left-wingers attack its faith in reform
[Gopnik]
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23133
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Cosmopolitan liberals lack national loyalty, and welcome excessive immigration
[Gopnik]
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23138
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Modern left-wingers criticise liberalism's control of culture
[Gopnik]
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23139
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Liberalism's attempt to be neutral and colour-blind erases cultural identities
[Gopnik]
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23135
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Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie
[Gopnik]
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23140
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Environmental disasters result not from capitalism, but from a general drive for growth
[Gopnik]
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23136
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Liberal free speech is actually paid speech
[Gopnik]
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23134
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A 'free' society implies a free market, which always produces predatory capitalism and inequalities
[Gopnik]
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23141
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Left-wingers are inconsistent in their essentialist descriptions of social groups
[Gopnik]
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23142
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People are fallible, so liberalism tries to distribute power
[Gopnik]
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23143
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Liberals have tried very hard to build a conscience into their institutions
[Gopnik]
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