The term does have the benefit of not separating Enlightenment-liberal from progressive-liberal, but truthfully, there's little practical difference between any of the strands of post-Enlightenment political thought. They're all premised on absolute individual rights and Locke's value-neutral state. Left wants maximal personal autonomy; Right wants maximal financial autonomy. That's the essence of the "uni-party". Burke provides the nearest alternative philosophical grounding, but I'm uncertain I'd actually want to live in a Burkean society.
I consider myself a recovering libertarian. I'm reading a book right now called A World After Liberalism. It summarizes 5 illiberal-right-wing writers of the 20th century. I can't endorse any of them (all are avowedly racist or aristocratic) but their perspectives are at least giving me contours of what a post-liberal world could look like. We may take the Left or Right road, but both are post-liberal at this point.
I like the term post-libertarian, credited to Pete Quinones, heard on the Gold, Goats & Guns Podcast
Here's the episode
https://podverse.fm/episode/BHKbBEup3
The term does have the benefit of not separating Enlightenment-liberal from progressive-liberal, but truthfully, there's little practical difference between any of the strands of post-Enlightenment political thought. They're all premised on absolute individual rights and Locke's value-neutral state. Left wants maximal personal autonomy; Right wants maximal financial autonomy. That's the essence of the "uni-party". Burke provides the nearest alternative philosophical grounding, but I'm uncertain I'd actually want to live in a Burkean society.
I consider myself a recovering libertarian. I'm reading a book right now called A World After Liberalism. It summarizes 5 illiberal-right-wing writers of the 20th century. I can't endorse any of them (all are avowedly racist or aristocratic) but their perspectives are at least giving me contours of what a post-liberal world could look like. We may take the Left or Right road, but both are post-liberal at this point.
Yes, especially your last sentence.