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The underlying object of our general crisis, the thing that harbors its multiple instabilities, is the present form of capitalism— globalizing, neoliberal, financialized. Like every form of capitalism, this one is no mere economic system but something larger: an institutionalized social order.

Nancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

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 conclusion to those on the far left, it is not without a strong element of self-interest either, because it is ordinary people who suffer,

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what we need to do is rethink this sense of unfettered capitalism in an age of globalization and say, no, we still have to value community, we still have to value place, and we need to have a capitalist system that allows for enough state intervention, that helps places survive and thrive.

ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space

In the past decade, liberalism has taken a beating from both sides of the political spectrum. Its critics to the left view its measured gradualism as incommensurate to the present’s multiple emergencies: climate change, inequality, the rise of an ethno-nationalist right. Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has ... See more

designing technologies as democratic mediums.

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

From Polycrisis to the Smart Commons

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But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption. Liberalism traditionally relied on economic growth to magically solve difficult social and political conflicts.

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

fewer jobs are like the full-time workplace-based industrial jobs around which social insurance systems were constructed. So it would be arbitrary to link social security to contributions from labour. This points to the need for a basic income system,

Guy Standing • The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION

“You hit on one of the central questions of our time: What is our relationship to place? Is there more or less nationalism in a world where people can freely move across countries?”