#Losurdo’s liberalism is particularly well written. It of course deals with liberalism as the dominant Western discourse and ideology from the 18th C onwards. In this analysis liberalism as a discourse contains both Tory and Whig traditions, including Locke, Berkeley, Mill and Bentham in the 18th Century and 19th Century traditions. This then incorporates liberalism in the American and European senders of the concept. That the sheer unpleasentness of the liberal tradition is foregrounded is hopefully obvious, though any reader who doesn’t know this before reading it - needs to do more research. Critically it should also become clear to the reader how and why fascist and state capitalist discourses emerge from the story of liberalism. It’s not clear that the relationship between capitalism and liberalism are as tightly drawn as they might be … But then this is probably my experience on the networks speaking here…