Public funding for "impersonal" institutions everywhere is shrinking, and being replaced with equivalent neoliberal equal-opportunity expropriation institution. SJWs are fighting over shrinking old pie. Ethnonationalists are mad about not getting first slice of growing new pie.
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SJWs are fighting over the dead carcass of the old world. The amount of damage they can do is fundamentally limited. The ethnonationalist right though, is threatening the living, growing thing. The amount of damage they can do is basically infinite. They might kill golden goose.
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Can we do better than neoliberalism? Yeah, sure, We can and we must, since big new challenges like climate change seem out of reach for its institutions (it is *powered* by tragedy of the commons in the worst case). More critically, it is based on nation states.
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Are you looking beyond the nation-state here? I'm not sure if Kennedy's "market-state" theory ever played out in practice
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Yes, that's the only place I'm looking :D
Nation-states are not dying, but they are going to be something of a vestigial layer of the stack that's going to float up for ceremonial use, with more consequential layers like MNCs sinking below to be new bedrock.
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Corporate power has been reined in before. I think people are more comfortable with a nationalist power they can control than a corporate power they can’t. And when corporate power feels too dominant, government tends to step in (see: Trustbusting)
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Dangerous belief in history rhyming exactly. This ain't Standard Oil.
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From the standpoint of the conduct of the corporations or from the political distrust in corporate power? Just cause Google and Amazon are better doesn’t mean people will be any more comfortable with it.
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Neither to me. The corporations are much more transnational, less constrained by national power these days. Corporate inversions as an example
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I mean, that didn’t work out so well for ZTE. Inversions still need regulatory approval and the US government still has tremendous power to destroy markets on a whim.
I can’t think of a major international corporation that’s out of reach of a determined US government.
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You guys seem to believe in a wall between corporate and political power that is mostly theory now. Most politicians have a stake in the Corp world now. There’s a degree of institutionalized coincidence of types of power. During trust-busting era that was weaker.
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