16. Mark Carney is Not Your Antifascist Dad

Carney’s recent speech at Davos really is as important as everyone’s saying it is. But in my view, it’s not important for the obvious truth we just heard him confess, but for the lessons it provides about the deep contradictions and hypocrisies of liberal politics, and how when it pretends to stand up to fascism it’s really asking that the capital order return to an era of better optics. Carney told a truth about neoliberalism that conceals a bigger lie about capitalist inevitability, and how pulling this off with the affect of a more benevolent patriarch can be really attractive and distracting.

Part two, available now on Patreon, explores Carney’s masculinity and paternal political style in depth. Does he offer secure attachment?

Notes

ICE taps Canadian firm for 20 armoured vehicles despite Trump trade war | Globalnews.ca

‘Deeply troubling’: Canadian legislators call for halt to ICE armored vehicle sale after report by The Independent

Leadnow. “Stop the Contract: No Canadian Weapons to ICE.”

“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 

The Power of the Powerless 

ECONOMIC WARFARE. (Hansard, 17 January 1940)

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