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Special Edition: Pilkington Launches "The Collapse Of Global Liberalism"

2025/6/5
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Andrew Collingwood: 在过去的十年里，我们看到了英国脱欧、唐纳德·特朗普的崛起、乌克兰战争的爆发、中国崛起为全球大国、红海关闭等一系列事件。这些事件之间是否存在联系？它们仅仅是对无能、糟糕的治理或技术官僚失败的回应吗？或者是否存在更根本的原因？我们是否看到了一种超越地缘政治和贸易关系转变的根本性政治体系转型？我认为这些事件之间存在联系，并且我们正在经历一场根本性的政治体系转型。

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This chapter delves into the core concept of liberalism, tracing its origins to John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" and the English Civil War. It explores the inherent contradictions within liberalism, contrasting its advertised image of toleration with its tendency toward extreme equality and social atomization.
  • Liberalism's origins are traced to John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" and the English Civil War.
  • Liberalism's core tenet is the secularization of progress and an anti-hierarchical intellectual system.
  • The pursuit of absolute equality leads to the atomization of social structures and challenges traditional hierarchies like family and gender.

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This week, we’re going as big picture as imaginable. Philip Pilkington has a thesis about liberalism itself:

  1. That it is bad.

  2. That it is ending. 

That’s the nub of his new book, released this week).

He argues that the modern world order is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialised economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs. 

Only by abandoning our liberal delusions and adopting hard-headed post-liberalism can the West survive.

In this special edition, Andrew Collingwood interviewed him in front of an online audience on a live Twitter Spaces. 

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