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Tess
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Richard Wolff, David Harvey Discussion

https://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=JllV04jm0tY

This is a #clip from the live virtual event “ #Marxism-for-this-Moment,” featuring a #conversation between #RichardWolff and #DavidHarvey, two experts with long histories of applying #Marx’s #ideas to our #current #politics in #insightful and #educational ways.

#wolff #richarddwolff #capitalism #mainstream #bourgeois #economics #contradictions #socialist #society

Conventional economists hate contradictions - Richard Wolff & David Harvey

Richard Wolff and David Harvey discuss misconceptions of mainstream or bourgeois economists who deny the Marxist concept of contradictions and make critical errors that have real and painful consequences for the majority of people. "It's fine...

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Reinventing Progress - How to Move Beyond Technocracy (Charles Eisenstein)

In turbulent times, society becomes vulnerable to false meaning-makers who would rescue us from our bewilderment. They offer to collapse complication and chaos into simple explanations for what is happening. They tell you what is real and what is not, who is good and who is bad. They pose a single explanatory logic to tidy up the messiness of a chaotic world.

In arenas of dispute, all sides typically attempt this, pitting one narrative against another in what we now recognize as narrative warfare.

The most prevalent simplifying strategy is to identify a villain and blame everything on him. In geopolitics, this means erasing entire histories in order to blame Saddam Hussein, Bashar Al-Assad, Nicolas Maduro, or Vladimir Putin for the latest crisis. The same mindset can also blame groups and ethnicities for social problems that involve them, such as immigrants, foreigners, Russians, whites, blacks, men, Muslims, Israelis, and so forth. When it comes to economics, it blames Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, the billionaires, the Fed, or the World Economic Forum (WEF). In explaining the ecological crisis, it pins everything onto greenhouse gas-induced global warming. In matters of public health, it assigns the villain role to anti-vaxxers, or to Anthony Fauci, or to Pfizer, or to sinister conspiratorial forces seeking to rule the world.

A telling sign of this mentality is, when anyone reintroduces history or nuance into the conversation, to accuse them of “making excuses” for the narrative’s bad guy. When someone is obsessed with pinning causality onto the evil character of the story, they will hostilely reject any confounding context that dilutes that identification.... (read more)

One of the most balanced views on the changes and "power struggles" of our current predicament... also a wonderful hopeful way to approach our way forward. 🕊

#Charles-Eisenstein #commentary on #current #issues #the-more-beautiful-world-we-dream-of

Reinventing Progress

How to Move Beyond Technocracy

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