If even ‘successful’ revolutions led to sclerotic technocracy and political repression in the long term, what then was to be the properly emancipatory course of action?
The problem is rather that folk-political thinking is content to remain at (and even privileges) that level – of the transient, the small-scale, the unmediated and the particular. It takes these to be sufficient rather than simply necessary moments
folk politics [...] often rejects the project of hegemony, valuing withdrawal or exit rather than building a broad counter-hegemony
Neoliberalism has failed, social democracy is impossible, and only an alternative vision can bring about universal prosperity and emancipation.
The utopian potentials inherent in twenty-first-century technology cannot remain bound to a parochial capitalist imagination; they must be liberated by an ambitious left alternative.
