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Narratives of Empowerment
"Progressives descend from the 'Patriots' of the Revolutionary War"
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Establishes the continuity of progressivism with American Revolutionary ideals. Challenges the self-professed continuity of conservativism with the same. |
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Move progressive ideas to the "mainstream" of American political discourse. |
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Reclaim patriotism. |
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Contribute to the marginalization of right-wing ideological narratives. |
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Patriots stood for a democratic republic, while the Tories supported Empire (the British one). |
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Patriots held that militarism was a threat to liberty, while Tories supported the crown's standing army and navy. |
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Patriots opposed forced military recruitment and defended the right of habeas corpus, while Tories supported the government's right to arbitrary control over people's bodies, via empressment, arbitrary arrest, and other abuses. |
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Patriots stood for separation of church and state (many were deists or atheists), while Tories tended to support state association with religion. |
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More Information
- Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory, Laclau
- The Spitting Image, Lembcke
- Vietnam and Other American Fantasies, Franklin
- M.I.A., or Mythmaking in America, Franklin
- Trouble Tickets' narratives book selections
- Reading Capital, Althusser
- Lenin and Philosophy, Althusser
- Louis Althusser, Montag
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Comments
In this light I would point out that George Lakoff's theory of cognitive "framing" has become something of a craze among the Democratic Party faithful. (See especially Lakoff's most recent book Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea [NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 200].) I think that we at TT would largely endorse his project of distinguishing "conservative" and "progressive" political frames. However, Lakoff completely bypasses critical engagement with a Marxist theory of ideology--perhaps because he is writing for a more-or-less wonkish audience?
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