This is a call to anyone listening that we must do better than those who have come before us and work to usher in a new wave of commitment, vision, and strategy that has never been seen before.
Maybe one could argue it is happening. The Left is working together on everything to the maximum degree it can…communicatively and organisationally. Perhaps the way things are unfolding IS the only way shit changes. Perhaps the numbers of those involved and committed to the struggle is exactly as it should be or could be, proportionate to the worlds population. Who knows?
Perhaps there is revolutionary vision…it’s called market socialism. It has variants along a spectrum. How far you go along the spectrum defines the institutional structure of such a vision. Where that spectrum stops is at the point where markets must be dissolved. So it stops short of that. Left strategy reflects exactly the proportions of belief in certain visions along this spectrum.
But there are frictions within the Left landscape that are inevitable. They push and pull, like a intra-Left tug of war, that basically controls the speed of change and there’s nothing that can be done about that. It happens. Critiques like yours Cooper are part of those frictions.
One could also say there are areas within the Left landscape that are working on vision and strategy specifically. The Next System Project, CommonsTransition and say, parts of DiEM25. That’s enough perhaps. Leaves everyone else to work on their particular concerns. So the whole Left doesn’t have to prioritise survival over revolution re a Global Green New Deal for instance. There are groups pushing for that and that’s all we can do and that’s needed, which leaves other groups to, say, focus on revolutionary systemic change.
But perhaps, if one favours another kind of specific economic model or vision, other than market socialist variations, one off the spectrum, then perhaps one could feel as if nothing is being done or things aren’t unfolding the way they should be. Makes sense. If that vision isn’t even in the frame of most within the Left landscape I can see how one would believe the Left is somewhat misguided. Pareconistas are probably in this camp. Maybe not all, but pretty much most.
I kind of feel right now the whole Left should refocus itself and prioritise survival over revolution, by uniting in force behind a Global Green New Deal, that at least two people I know and respect believe should be up and running by 2025 to be finished by 2050. But then, that’s just me.
Maybe one could argue it is happening. The Left is working together on everything to the maximum degree it can…communicatively and organisationally. Perhaps the way things are unfolding IS the only way shit changes. Perhaps the numbers of those involved and committed to the struggle is exactly as it should be or could be, proportionate to the worlds population. Who knows?
Perhaps there is revolutionary vision…it’s called market socialism. It has variants along a spectrum. How far you go along the spectrum defines the institutional structure of such a vision. Where that spectrum stops is at the point where markets must be dissolved. So it stops short of that. Left strategy reflects exactly the proportions of belief in certain visions along this spectrum.
But there are frictions within the Left landscape that are inevitable. They push and pull, like a intra-Left tug of war, that basically controls the speed of change and there’s nothing that can be done about that. It happens. Critiques like yours Cooper are part of those frictions.
One could also say there are areas within the Left landscape that are working on vision and strategy specifically. The Next System Project, CommonsTransition and say, parts of DiEM25. That’s enough perhaps. Leaves everyone else to work on their particular concerns. So the whole Left doesn’t have to prioritise survival over revolution re a Global Green New Deal for instance. There are groups pushing for that and that’s all we can do and that’s needed, which leaves other groups to, say, focus on revolutionary systemic change.
But perhaps, if one favours another kind of specific economic model or vision, other than market socialist variations, one off the spectrum, then perhaps one could feel as if nothing is being done or things aren’t unfolding the way they should be. Makes sense. If that vision isn’t even in the frame of most within the Left landscape I can see how one would believe the Left is somewhat misguided. Pareconistas are probably in this camp. Maybe not all, but pretty much most.
I kind of feel right now the whole Left should refocus itself and prioritise survival over revolution, by uniting in force behind a Global Green New Deal, that at least two people I know and respect believe should be up and running by 2025 to be finished by 2050. But then, that’s just me.