Master Narratives

Bob Somerby discusses WHY LIBERALS LOSE! We said that liberals need Master Narratives. Last night, two pundits showed why:. HE complains that the Liberals are sticking to a master narrative of sorts. He says

It’s great to have a few Master Narratives, and the Pseudo-Conservative Outrage Machine has spent four decades creating them. The press corps is driven by liberal bias! And: Liberal elites hate your red-state values! And: For liberals, it’s all about political correctness! These simple messages provide key frameworks for pseudo-conservative complaints of all kinds. They place trivial gripes in a large, crucial context. For that reason, you hear them recited all the time.

I disagree. There are several master narratives on the left, among many,

• The Communist Manifesto
• Anarchism
• ParEcon

What these master narratives have in common is that ordinary people run their own lives in cooperation with their fellows.

What muddies the picture is the other liberals who want Capitalism with a nicer face (for them, of course). It is these people who are the tecnicians of empire (the Little Eichmanns). These perpetual compromisors are really supporting Capitalism.