In many circles resistance has come to be glorified, obscuring the conservative nature of such a stance behind a veil of radical rhetoric. Resistance is seen to be all that is possible, while constructive projects are nothing but a dream. While it can be important in some circumstances, in the task of building a new world, resistance is futile.
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…it has been collective investment, not private investment, that has been the primary driver of technological development. High-risk inventions and new technologies are too risky for private capitalists to invest in; figures such as Steve Jobs and Elon Musk slyly obscure their parasitical reliance on state-led developments. Likewise, multi-billion dollar megascale projects are ultimately drien by non-economic goals that exceed any cost-benefit analysis.
I connected with the text so much, I had to share two exercpts :)
The authors present a few ideas on how to build a leftist platform to successfully rival the neoliberal mindset driving today’s global powers. They start by covering the rise of neoliberalism as a decades-long planned effort envisioned by the Mont Pelerin Society, and then move on to lay out a framework for how today’s and tomorrow’s left can build a sustainable movement.
The key takeaways for me are:
They present the current political climate with plenty of doom and gloom, but one of the futures they envision is as full of hope as AOC’s A Message From the Future video.
I highly suggest you give this a read to get some context on how we arrived at today’s state of affairs in politics and economics.