Ryan’s Reviews > Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire > Status Update

By moving ourselves away from arguments only about capitalism's unremitting brutality, we see that violence was inherent to liberalism. It resided in liberalism's reformism, its claims to modernity, its promises of freedom, and its notion of the law. … The perennial problem of liberalism and violence [… is] embedded in the nation's contemporary racial issues as well as those of other Western liberal democracies.