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[Wojtek S]

Doug quoted: "But a politics without representation, exclusion,
dogmatism, and utopianism is no politics at all (which is why Schmitt
quite rightly sees liberalism as lacking a politics). It is instead an
ethics. Is it any surprise, then, that under neoliberalism ostensible
leftists spend countless hours and pages and keystrokes elaborating
ethics? the ethics of this or the ethics of that, fundamentally
personal and individual approaches that obscure and deny the systems
and structures in which they are embedded?"

[WS:]  Good point.  However, he forgot to add "ethics without human
agency as well."  This implies that this is not an ethical system at
all, since ethic requires human agency.  It is rather a form of phatic
soliloquy - an act of speech or rather monologue designed to project a
certain impression about the speaker - typically how smart and erudite
he/she is.  Most of "new left" discourse nowadays is neither politics
nor ethics, but glorified narcissism.

Wojtek