The central argument, that without trust, there can be no civilization, and that we live in an era of institutionalizing mistrust is of course true. That identitarian tribalism under a feudalizing capitalism is a perfect precedent for an expansion of rule, true. That identity politics is a total failure, true. But, to use an untranslatable idiom, du schüttest das Kind mit dem Bade aus.
1. Climate breakdown is not some abstract narrative being pushed by mysterious elites to gain power. It’s a very concrete process that turns out to be *the most devastating* consequence of capitalism. It’s just being used as a precedent to justify an ongoing power accumulation and to help create all kinds of *others*. It’s being co-opted into systemic stabilization in times of looming public anger. That doesn’t affect its being real. The name of the appropriate *measure* in the face of climate breakdown is communism.
2. People had and have all types of reasons to be distrustful of certain other people: they were afraid of being hurt, raped, killed, molested, chased and reduced to a racialized or gendered other by their *master* to have a justification for a power relation. This mistrust is not grounded in some ~woke agenda~ and otherwise unfounded. And yet, people afford trust in others continuously simply because they couldn’t function if they didn’t. Antisociality fosters mistrust and vice versa. The way out is communism.
3. The reemergence of tribalism and and essentialism under liberal dystopia is horrible and its simplistic, antisocial and enjoyable appeal is a huge problem for any emancipatory, universalist, left project. As the liberal-leftist »answer« to forms of oppression and exploitation, it merely completes an essentialist, anti-universalist and anti-emancipatory circle of endless culture war. But to start bashing the »disadvantaged« as the supposed new masters is frankly delusional and falls back far behind it’s initial line of critique. It also produces its own brand of tribalism that is no less dumb. Die Kritik der Kritik wird hier vorkritisch. We must not forget Schernikau.
Neoliberalism was the counterrevolution to '68, the rise of neofeudal-extractivist capitalism and moralist censorship is not so much a counterrevolution butane least a massive blow to whatever is left of politics in general. Truly truly dark times. But the self-dismantling of the left is just being sped up by whiny antiwokeness. Tragic!
The central argument, that without trust, there can be no civilization, and that we live in an era of institutionalizing mistrust is of course true. That identitarian tribalism under a feudalizing capitalism is a perfect precedent for an expansion of rule, true. That identity politics is a total failure, true. But, to use an untranslatable idiom, du schüttest das Kind mit dem Bade aus.
1. Climate breakdown is not some abstract narrative being pushed by mysterious elites to gain power. It’s a very concrete process that turns out to be *the most devastating* consequence of capitalism. It’s just being used as a precedent to justify an ongoing power accumulation and to help create all kinds of *others*. It’s being co-opted into systemic stabilization in times of looming public anger. That doesn’t affect its being real. The name of the appropriate *measure* in the face of climate breakdown is communism.
2. People had and have all types of reasons to be distrustful of certain other people: they were afraid of being hurt, raped, killed, molested, chased and reduced to a racialized or gendered other by their *master* to have a justification for a power relation. This mistrust is not grounded in some ~woke agenda~ and otherwise unfounded. And yet, people afford trust in others continuously simply because they couldn’t function if they didn’t. Antisociality fosters mistrust and vice versa. The way out is communism.
3. The reemergence of tribalism and and essentialism under liberal dystopia is horrible and its simplistic, antisocial and enjoyable appeal is a huge problem for any emancipatory, universalist, left project. As the liberal-leftist »answer« to forms of oppression and exploitation, it merely completes an essentialist, anti-universalist and anti-emancipatory circle of endless culture war. But to start bashing the »disadvantaged« as the supposed new masters is frankly delusional and falls back far behind it’s initial line of critique. It also produces its own brand of tribalism that is no less dumb. Die Kritik der Kritik wird hier vorkritisch. We must not forget Schernikau.
Neoliberalism was the counterrevolution to '68, the rise of neofeudal-extractivist capitalism and moralist censorship is not so much a counterrevolution butane least a massive blow to whatever is left of politics in general. Truly truly dark times. But the self-dismantling of the left is just being sped up by whiny antiwokeness. Tragic!