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Louis Proyect wrote
The answer is obvious. We lack a powerful left.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-butler-protests_us_5b564158e4b0fd5c73c8127f
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Well yes, and then why do we lack a powerful left? Why is its absence
now global?
Why is it the case that there is no left despite the failure of
capitalist reform in the stagnating economies of the advanced countries?
The continuing expansion of capital in emergent areas of the globe is
one reason, although all signs are that as AI becomes more prevalent and
more sophisticated and depreciates in cost and increasingly reduces
economies to a state of increasing labor reserves, and as the closely
connected, centrifugal global economy stagnates, even these areas will
face growing unemployment and conflict sooner rather than later. Then
there's already continuing decline of capital's creds in providing the
needed governance to fulfill needs of people throughout the planet. And
the absence, largely because of the failure of the experiments in
socialism in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Chile, Venezuela, soon-to-be Cuba
and on - in the absence of a credible left vision that does not entail a
command economy driven by accumulation through surplus value and
dictatorial conditions for labor.
Eventually, we almost every time have learned from our mistakes, albeit
in the case of systemic alternatives as now, for billions around the
globe with enormous, protracted devastation and pain. Without the pain
and in the shortest order, that's the hope.
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