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Can’t we all just get along?
Rodney King
How can society be such that man should be free, reason practical, and the will good? This is the question…
Agnes Heller, Beyond Justice
The COVID-19 pandemic places the values of freedom and life into conflict. The spell of capitalist realism keeps us from exploring practical resolutions.
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In the 2020 Democratic primaries issues don’t matter. All that matters is beating Trump. This electability narrative is a grift. We’re all being hustled.
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In the customer-centric era we’ve become a bunch of Karens. Unfortunately, Karen’s customer-centric politics is absolutely devastating for democracy.
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American politics is a multi-billion dollar industry. Let’s examine how the election industry works to cut the electorate out of the political process.
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Goldilocks trespasses in the bears’ cottage. She eats their food, breaks a chair, and sleeps in one of their beds. The bears come home and find her, and Goldilocks runs off. The story doesn’t go anywhere, just like liberal centrist politics.
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What does it take to shape resistance into an effective counter-hegemonic practice?
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What we get here, with Scott’s “paper-thin” account of hegemony, is an illuminating way of understanding Gramsci’s trenches.
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The agonistic democracy Rodney King, therefore, would instead be heard to utter an alternative lament, something like “Can we all just NOT get along?”
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After liberal post-politics, what shared understanding of political action might lead to a viable center-left counter-hegemonic social and political project?
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It has also been a significant feature of neoliberal hegemony that the liberal wing of the dominant class has also been systematically misled–not about its subordination, but rather about its class dominance.
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The advanced capitalist legitimation crisis turns out to be the lack of a legitimation crisis we ought to be having.
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