Number 53
In this issue:
- Seeing through “democracy”
- Greta Thunberg: the billionaires’ favourite
- Misdirected Rebellion
- Calling out the imperial gatekeepers
- Yellow revolt takes a striking twist
- Jacques Ellul: an orgrad inspiration
- Acorninfo
1. Seeing through “democracy”
The capitalist system will not abolish itself.
In fact, it will always do all that it physically can to preserve itself and its control over our lives.
While it likes to pretend its structures of domination amount to “democracy”, this is not the case, because it could never leave the door open to the possibility of its own abolition by democratic means.
The only changes possible via the fake-democracy of the system are limited reforms, which leave the system very much in place.
When we say “limited”, we perhaps mean “extremely limited”, because even the mildest of social-democratic tinkering, undoing some of the worst excesses of contemporary neoliberalism, is beyond the pale for the…
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