Aris Roussinos at Unherd draws on the ideas of Louis Althusser to illuminate how the radical rhetoric of contemporary self-styled anti-racism morphs into a successor ideology. Far from toppling capitalism, it is proving popular with many HR departments and a good friend to a new liberal élite:
Like the wave of statue-toppling earlier this summer, which immediately subsumed itself into the endless bureaucracy of commissions and panels, overseen by the quangos and opaquely-funded NGOs which actually run this country, we realise that true power in Britain rests neither in the streets nor at the ballot box, but in the hands of the professional managerial class. The spread of the successor ideology is not, despite the urban violence which occasionally attends its spread, a revolutionary moment, but the very opposite, a counterrevolution of HR managers, the means by which managerial liberalism reasserts its authority over the organs of the state.
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