Things Fall Apart
Urie, Rob http://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/05/things-fall-apart-3/
Publisher: CounterPunch
Date Written: 05/05/2023
Year Published: 2023
Resource Type: Article
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This state-adjacent new-new-left applied the siloed logic of liberal technocracy ('experts') to the post-Great Recession landscape to conclude in Bernanke-like fashion that history and economic relations have no bearing on left politics. What does have bearing? A paper-thin moralism. Some people are good, and some people are bad. The role of the good people is to spend their days crushing the bad people (fascist logic?). The 'good' people in this telling are by-and-large the urban bourgeois who benefited from the Obama years, while the 'bad' people are the dispossessed former factory workers who didn't
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