I agree that both liberalism and socialism are in crisis. Maybe the significant difference is that almost all socialists know their politics is in crisis but there is a significant number of elite liberals who are in denial about the crisis of their own politics.https://twitter.com/EricLevitz/status/1427255198137868290 …
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I'd push back on ideologies following material interests necessarily. After all the Christians in medieval Europe killed or exiled Jewish people who did vital jobs to keep the various administrations running, when elementary self-interest would have dictated otherwise.
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But “medieval Christians” didn’t all have similar material interests. See Marx on anti-Semitism as the “socialism of fools”: classes that saw themselves as economically exploited by Jewish communities were much more anti-Semitic.
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I dunno. The Green New Deal idea—a vast mobilization to move the economy to green energy, based on labor compensated at a living wage—is basically left Keynesianism/social democracy, right? Seems at least to be thinking on a scale that's up to the task.
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I think a Green New Deal is as close as we have to a solution but the problem of how to mobilize for it is daunting.
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In times of turmoil, a reversion to authoritarianism is comfortable to a certain sort of person. A tyrant who gives definitive answers (however wrong) can be attractive.
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I saw someone refer to climate change as “climate reality”—maybe it was you? Anyway, I think it would behoove all ideologies to adopt the mentality that it’s not necessarily a looming, foreboding thing that’s not here yet. It’s just not done changing, and will soon go faster
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Be prepared to give up what you think is yours - that is the only change required
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