Sublime

The political project of democratic socialism requires secular faith.

In Weber’s view, a “traditionalist” view of work is one where people work as much as they need to maintain their current lifestyle, and once that aim is achieved, they stop working.

But ruling classes rarely, if ever, voluntarily surrender any of their power and I see no reason to believe they will do so this time. Paradoxically, a strong and powerful social democratic and working-class movement is in a better position to redeem capitalism than is capitalist class power itself. While this may sound a counter-revolutionary conc

The nostalgics are beginning to find an identity and empathy with the progressives.

The German sociologist Karl Mannheim argued that utopia was a necessary antidote to what he considered the normative role of “ideology,” a term he specifically defined as the unseen but omnipresent social, cultural, and philosophical structure that upholds a particular “order of things” and protects those who wield political and economic power.

providing a guaranteed basic income

D’abord, il y a eu les inflexions progressives de la gauche de gouvernement qui l’ont rapprochée du paradigme libéral. Il ne s’agit pas ici de la « trahison des classes populaires » de la note du think tank Terra Nova discutée précédemment, mais bien de l’acceptation progressive de la troisième voie portée par Tony Blair et Gerhart Schröder, et doc

A project of unionizing service workers, fast-food workers, domestic workers, agricultural workers, public-sector workers, and more—defending the unions that do exist and organizing the unorganized—that’s a potential game-changer.

To harness the radicalism we believe is inherent in markets, we must decentralize power while spurring collective action.