But didn't the tech-savvy non-right (I can't bring myself to use idiotic
terms as "left", "progressives", "liberals", "democrats") make a bet
that slicing the society into micro-groups ("left-handed transsexuals"
etc.) and managing these gullible groups with the high-tech networked
systems, is the winning strategy for the 21st century?
They lost the bet.
It turned out that the right can also master the networks, and use them
to successfully proselytize their own mega-groups (nations, races,
continents). Micro groups have zero chance in confronting these, given
the equal C&C fabric, and it is equal now.
The identity politics is dead - perhaps will maintain the body
temperature on life support for a year or so. All strategies and
expertizes developed around navigating it are useless. The non-right is
not even a zombie - it can't bite and infect s*it.
So what is the historical moment? (and I agree that it is the historical
moment.) What will the resurgence of mega-groups bring?
For those paying attention, it is the right that is introducing terms
"surveillance capitalism", "class warfare", "ruling class",
"authoritarian" on the national TV.
Perhaps it's time to get over the lipstick on the dead pig, and invest
in modulating the right. Affect hundreds of millions instead tens of
thousands.
"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but
where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin." - V. I.
Lenin.
Because contrary to what the far-right is doing, imposing homgeneity as
identity, it is precisely the chance of the historical moment, with it's
particular configuration of the "mode of production" (aka networked
digital technologies) that sustain a new relationship between
individuality and collectivity.
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