Reblogged from The Charnel-House:

IMAGE: French revolutionary map
of the world, by I.B. Elwe (1792)

Excerpted from a draft for my long-delayed essay (almost a small book now) on the relationship of revolutionary Marxism to revolutionary liberalism.

It is difficult to even mention the concept of civilization without conjuring up images of Occidental hauteur. One is immediately reminded of the so-called “civilizing mission” undertaken by the great colonial powers of Europe.

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Quite an interesting musing on liberalism and civilization.