Re: science wars replace culture wars as new divider in contemp politics

2022-02-04 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 09:22:45AM +0100, Alex Foti wrote: > let's win the science wars to prevail in the climate and class struggles, Yes, please. Thank you for emphasising the issue of science in all of this. TL;DR: How big is the impact of culturally accepted anti-science and will this

Re: science wars replace culture wars as new divider in contemp politics

2022-02-04 Thread Alex Foti
thanks for your critical remarks. true the fascist cancer hasn't spared neither spain nor portugal, but it seems to me that they are not attracting large numbers of people from other sectors of society as it happens in the rest of continental europe (and canada!) with no vax movements. best

Re: science wars replace culture wars as new divider in contemp politics

2022-02-03 Thread José María Mateos
On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 10:22:37AM +, Andre Rangel wrote: Hi Alex, Thank you for your text. Just a minor correction. Unfortunately. In Portugal, the extreme right “Chega” was the third most voted in the last election (7.15% of the votes). In Spain Vox is the political umbrela for

Re: science wars replace culture wars as new divider in contemp politics

2022-02-03 Thread Andre Rangel
Hi Alex, Thank you for your text. Just a minor correction. Unfortunately. In Portugal, the extreme right “Chega” was the third most voted in the last election (7.15% of the votes). In Spain Vox is the political umbrela for Francoism/Nazi/Nationalist movements. Vox is connected with Chega.

science wars replace culture wars as new divider in contemp politics

2022-02-03 Thread Alex Foti
hi guys, i owe to my good friend cedric jonckheere this fundamental intuition that well summarizes the postpandemic shift in modern politics. there's no longer (woke) left and (populist) right. the emergence of major novax movements largely hegemonized by the nationalist and racist right is a