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through violent repression, sometimes through symbolic appropriation, often Of my various differences with Wolf, this is the one that matters most to me, because I believe it to be at the heart of why she and s through a combination of the two. SO many capital's s ravag- others have come so unmoored. I am a leftist focused on ing of our bodies, our democratic structures, and the living systems that support our collective existence. Wolf is a liberal who never had a cri- tique of capital; she simply wanted women like her to be free from bias and discrimination in the system so that they could rise as individuals. "I believe in equipping women so that they're not disempowered in the market economy," she told The Guardian's Katharine Viner many years ago. Wolf believed strongly in the promise of the liberal meritocracy: giv- ing people the tools to rise as individuals, not creating universal pro- grams to guarantee a better life for all. She followed the meritocracy's rules and rode its
elevator, floor by floor, to the top: high school debate club, Yale then Oxford, liberal media darling, advisor to some of the most powerful men in the world, dinner parties with the Davos set. She has described herself as "a child of the narrative" and a "darling of... north- eastern or bi-coastal elite thought leaders." So what happened? Did she discover, at a certain point, that this elite liberal order, the one that had lifted her so high, was not what it seemed? That it was not actually fair, but rather rife with rigged rules and false promises and cruelties? Was it in the rubble of that collapsed worldview, with nothing to replace it, that she came to see a labyrinth of cabals and conspiracies? Jack Bratich, a Rutgers University communications scholar with a fo- cus on conspiracies, explained this possible trajectory to me like this: "Liberal investments in individualism result in thinking of power as re- siding in individuals and groups rather than structures. Without an anal-
ysis of capital or class they end up defaulting to the stories the West tells itself about the power of the individual to change the world. But hero narratives easily flip into villain narratives." This is a crucial point: con- spiracy culture does not challenge the hyper-individualism that is at the heart of so many crises reaching their breaking points. Instead, it mirrors my Wol the exis to lose This ing sess pec ter SC a t
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