Bootstraps ideology and the 2020 primaries

I’m tempted to say that it was Marx who taught us that there are limits to our political agency — that we make our own history, but do not make it as we please — but that is not quite right. This is a lesson that we learn when we’re children. For Freud, it was the lesson: you want your mother, but the world tells you that you cannot have her, and you ei…