Solnit is a poetic writer, but she's not a policy/governance person. I'm interested in how a new system would actually operate, what its incentives would be, what its accountability levers would be, who would be accountable to whom and how.
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With Marxist policies at the municipal level, I think it's challenging bc cities have much less control over flows of people, capital than nation-states do. There's Tiebout-sorting on taxes and then a problem w cities providing services when neighboring jurisdictions don't
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I mean Marxism is ultimately an international political economy theory. how it translates locally can be lots of tactics and strategies that we argue over amongst ourselves all the time
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the challenge is that the US is littered with the corpses of socialist orgs who said “there’s one way to do this and that’s it”. DSA itself has a katrillion tendencies already, but we have to build power the left doesn’t have b/c it’s been in the wilderness for a half century
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omg I forgot my favorite one that I read in 2018: Four Futures by Peter Frase https://www.jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/ … (this is a shortened version of a short book that is worth reading in full)
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Four Futures is great. I kinda think that using past attempts at socialism/communism as visions into the future is misguided. New tech affordances in an increasingly globalized world make precedents mostly irrelevant, for better or worse. What a weird convo this is!
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I've never heard of this man, and yet
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Matt Stoller blocked me when he said W.E.B. DuBois was a "Jeffersonian" and he "didn't understand why any Americans were Marxists" and I replied with a picture of DuBois literally hanging out with Mao
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Matt openly admits he's a misanthrope so don't take it personally.
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