"We can do better"
But we won't.
OK, some of us will - and will have to. But chance is it's
unsustainable. That is, if we descend into the kind of scenario
predicted within a total Trumpian meltdown. Yet we don't need to.
It is indeed likely that the US of A will get into some seriously
-- Frederic Neyrat wrote:
"The important point for me is to affirm that Strategy T is not democratic.
The goal is to find a way to suspend democracy/civil rights/freedom/next
elections etc. Whatever the means. War, "terrorist" attack, financial
crisis, etc."
--> I think the hypothetical
Thanks, David.
Believe it or not, I did not plagiarize your post. I missed it and what
plagiarist would send his work back to the source where there are so many
witnesses? The language parallels belong to the Zeitgeist, I suppose.
I wanted to focus on just one point.This is not a case of a swing
As cracks appear in the neo-liberal paradigm and market fundementalism falters
(even in the UK Tory party where Brexit flys in the face
of what neo-liberal business wants).. we must be wary of seeing “public
ownership” as an unalloyed -good-. State (or public) entites can
quite easily become
Brian,
Thanks once more for your stimulating perspective on the political crisis.
I have tried to boil down my take on that crisis, without yet proposing
possible initiatives, which will in any case be contingent and perhaps more
local than previously imagined.
Market fundamentalism is at
Dear Brian,
Like you, I don't see any organization able to do this coup. But what seems
to me very important is to understand that, IF there is a strategy at stake
in Trump's politics, this is not a democratic one:
1/ First, is there a strategy at stake, and not only random tweets and
Well, I have said so myself in the past. But it doesn't seem that way
today. Right now you have the entire punditocracy and even the Prez hisself
debating whether White Supremacy is to blame for the nation's ills.
Monuments to the slaveholding Confederacy that were put up long after its
demise are
