From major, statewide legislative victories and tax-code changes to preliminary community meetings and discussions with local politicians, it is clear that 2019 has paved the way for replacing our current broken economic system with a new, democratic economy that operates on principles of racial, social, and economic justice.
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/major-advances-2019-toward-more-democratic-economy
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/major-advances-2019-toward-more-democratic-economy
TheNextSystem.org
Major advances in 2019 toward a more democratic economy
This past year, state and municipal lawmakers teamed up with community organizations to fight for—and win—a wide variety of policies and initiatives that will help foster a more democratic economy.
A review on Richard Seymour's "The Twittering Machine", by Oliver Eagleton #books
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
New Left Review
Oliver Eagleton, Mind-Forged Manacles?, NLR 120, November–December 2019
Oliver Eagleton on Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine. A Marxian-Freudian polemic against social media, seen as irredeemably hostile to progressive politics.
"The confederation becomes the umbrella democratic counter-institution that joins the forces of the multitude of democratic assemblies by pooling resources and knowledge, engaging in shared struggles, emboldening new ones, and creating a formidable dual power that could constitute the tipping point for a new democratic and egalitarian society."
https://roarmag.org/magazine/confederation-commune-of-communes/
https://roarmag.org/magazine/confederation-commune-of-communes/
ROAR Magazine
The Confederation as the Commune of Communes
Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale.
"Unions controlled by the rank-and-file can serve as a dual power bridgehead towards the democratization of cities, states and capital."
https://roarmag.org/magazine/municipalist-syndicalism-from-the-workplace-to-the-community/
https://roarmag.org/magazine/municipalist-syndicalism-from-the-workplace-to-the-community/
ROAR Magazine
Municipalist Syndicalism: From the Workplace to the Community
Unions controlled by the rank-and-file can serve as a dual power bridgehead towards the democratization of cities, states and capital.
"This is the essence of capitalism kitsch: to ignore all evidence, tell comforting stories about the past, and encourage the kind of collective amnesia that nourishes the delusion of a better tomorrow. A happy past means a happy future—and we used to have it so good! But no, we never had it good: not then, and certainly not now."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/jet-age-capitalism-redux-timms
https://thebaffler.com/latest/jet-age-capitalism-redux-timms
The Baffler
Jet Age Capitalism Redux | Aaron Timms
Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal looks less like a projection of capitalism’s kinetic future than a chained bird unable to get off the ground.
"Capitalism's history is oscillations between competition and monopoly, each causing the other. Capitalism is the problem, not its oscillating forms."
#video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjG8av4WU4
#video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjG8av4WU4
YouTube
Economic Update: Competition & Monopoly In Capitalism
[S9 E46] Competition & Monopoly In Capitalism
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Capitalism's growing problems (inequalities,…
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“History has not yet given us a successful experience of the democratic road to socialism,” he wrote. “What it has provided—and that is not insignificant—is some negative examples to avoid and some mistakes upon which to reflect. . . . But one thing is certain: socialism will be democratic or it will not be at all.”
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nicos-poulantzas-philosopher-of-democratic-socialism
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nicos-poulantzas-philosopher-of-democratic-socialism
Dissent
Nicos Poulantzas: Philosopher of Democratic Socialism
Poulantzas tried to envision how the left could simultaneously champion rank-and-file democracy at a distance from the state and push for radical transformation from within it.