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The idea that the roni is going to usher in a new age of social democracy is batshit insane. Coronavirus is going to allow the ruling class to consolidate power. Removing wages, entitlements and workplace rights under the guise of ‘getting people back to work’ is a part of that
Anyone who’s out there telling you that we’ll see a renewal of the social contract and a return to the welfare state has a pretty tenuous relationship with reality. Don’t dream a patch of welfare-as-stimulus into fully fledged luxury communism.
Just watch. Every market crash is an opportunity for the people who own everything to reconfigure society even further in their favour. Purported welfare measures like JobKeeper have had this effect by exacerbating divisions between permanent and casual workers.
the gradual reform, seat-at-the-table soft leftism has always been completely hapless during these moments of seismic shift. Capitalists and those who represent their interests display no caution or delicacy when they drag everything further out of balance.
A left that is obsessive about signalling their desire to be serious and constructive will have absolutely no answer to the generation of right wing demagogues that will follow Trump.
As we lurch towards climate disaster, we can’t keep lining up behind polite and cautious figures who offer nuanced and fractional constructions like green capitalism in an attempt to present a small target. We will continue to watch ourselves getting ripped apart and devoured
