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The truth that the GND doesn’t appear to want to face is that we’re not simply dealing with some variation on the problems that the New Deal and its institutional legacy were meant to confront. We are dealing with something that is much more complex and foundational. We are dealing with two contradictions of capital that work against each other. If we approach our present situation as if it is just another variation on an old problem (the first contradiction of capital) we will not be able to confront the second contradiction of capital. That’s because in the traditional New Deal queue we will cook ourselves for jobs and short-run economic stability through growth before we’ll pay attention to biophysical limits. The problem is that it isn’t all that clear what cooking ourselves will mean for the quality of human life (not to mention other-than-human life) either in the short or the longer term. Let’s just say it looks like a decidedly downward trajectory for all parties concerned.
full: http://greensocialthought.org/content/historical-moment-demands-transformation-our-institutions-green-new-deal-won%E2%80%99t-do
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