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how to build a counterhegemonic bloc

Whatever our uncertainly regarding the endpoint, one thing is clear: if we fail to pursue this option now, we will prolong the present interregnum. That means condemning working people of every persuasion and every color to mounting stress and declining health, to ballooning debt and overwork, to c…

—p.39 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (7) by Nancy Fraser
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capitalism as an institutionalized social order topic/financialisation

The objective side of the crisis is no mere multiplicity of separate dysfunctions. Far from forming a dispersed plurality, its various strands are interconnected and share a common source. The underlying object of our general crisis, the thing that harbors its multiple instabilities, is the present…

—p.37 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (7) by Nancy Fraser
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race and class in contemporary financialized capitalism

[...] the depth at which racism is anchored in contemporary capitalist society - and the incapacity of progressive-neoliberal moralizing to address it. They also reveal that the structural bases of racism have as much to do with class and political economy as with status and (mis)recognition. Equal…

—p.35 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (7) by Nancy Fraser
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progressive neoliberalism's moralizing condescension

[...] one might separate those Trump voters who could and should be responsive to such an appeal from the card-carrying racists and alt-right ethnonationalists who are not. To say that the former outnumber the latter by a wide margin is not to deny that reactionary populist movements draw heavily o…

—p.33 The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born (7) by Nancy Fraser
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