The problem with [liberal] moralism is not its concern for ethics as such, but its tendency to replace structural analysis with moral judgement. It creates a sense of having acted, of standing on the “right” side, while sidestepping harder questions of organization, power, material interests, and the conditions of real intervention. The result is a form of pseudo-activity such as loud and morally self-satisfied, yet ultimately safe for the very order it imagines itself to be opposing.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”
• Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”
• Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour
• Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party
• Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers
• Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, 107 Days
• The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota
• Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025
• Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025
• How Democrats Can Start Winning Again
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