liberal capitalism

Weaponising progress

Ben December 8, 2022

This essay has been updated. Living the values articulated in speech has never been a...

Liberal capitalism is dead. Flogging a dead horse fertilises the soil for fascism

Ben November 5, 2020

From its beginnings out of the European Enlightenment, liberal capitalism was based on a promise...

Ben Debney

Ben Debney is author of The Oldest Trick in the Book: Panic-Driven Scapegoating in History and Recurring Patterns of Persecution (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Current research investigates the role of Othering and blame-shifting in the origins and consequences of fossil ideology, the group of ideological belief systems that have sought to rationalise and legitimate the historical conditions behind the climate emergency. https://linktr.ee/bendebney