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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 5 months ago

what has gone wrong?

[...] The recent cycle of struggles has to be identified as one of overarching failure, despite a multitude of small-scale successes and moments of large-scale mobilisation. The question that any analysis of the left today must grapple with is simply: What has gone wrong? It is undeniable that heig…

—p.9 Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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when will these sequences pay off

[...] Such protests are registered only in the minds of their participants, bypassing any transformation of social structures. While these efforts at radicalisation and awareness-raising are undoubtedly important to some degree, there still remains the question of exactly when these sequences mig…

—p.7 Our Political Common Sense: Introducing Folk Politics (5) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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their corpses stumble on

[...] All around us, it seems that the political systems, movements and processes that dominated the last hundred years are no longer able to bring about genuinely transformative change. Instead, they have forced us onto an endless treadmill of misery. Electoral democracy lies in remarkable disrepa…

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek
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each day, we return to work as normal

Yet, for all the glossy sheen of our technological era, we remain bound by an old and obsolete set of social relations. We continue to work long hours, commuting further, to perform tasks that feel increasingly meaningless. Our jobs have become more insecure, our pay has stagnated, and our debt has…

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek