"Civil society" is just a subject, a thing, a category of analysis. If we merely talk about foundations, ngos, or globalization we can make a partial account of changes in civil society, or a partial genealogy of the new, new left. What we lack is an understanding of https://twitter.com/beanie_bernie/status/1345841740884836353

civil society's role in the long era and what that means for a working class politics compared to a "left" politics. The NGOs are merely a bigness in a structural account that a Left produced by civil society that cannot and will not regard itself. In the same way an account of

capitalism is incomplete when the analysis is confined to bigness and corruption - Bezos vs ski-do dealers in variations of corruption themes at scales - it's not helpful to understand civil society apart from its history, its function at all scales, and relationship to post-War

class transformations. If you merely talk of Great Resets and various globalized schematics of corruption and decadence then you're not addressing what sets that in motion. You're in a structural denial of the very socio-political-economic dynamics set up decades and decades ago

to produce this political economy. A decadent version of "civil society" in the "NGO" is becoming fashionable in making a nonstructural account of left and lib decadence in the same way Koch symbolized the wretchedness of Right wing politics.

This is as stabilizing as the proto-new new left's 99 vs 1%, because it will not account for civil society as a whole and how, in its totality, only reflects the goals not just of capitalism but of the middle class that's materially and structurally conjoined with it.

The mutual development of both capitalism and the path-determined projects, goals, and interests of civil society are aligned at the political equilibrium that democracy extends to the middle class, and is the source of its existence. An insurgent left (or even right) politics

cannot exist without colliding with both the middle class domination of electoral and civil society content *and the middle class relation to capitalism. The long trajectory of the middle class era IS further coordination between capital and civil society. Great Resets,

"industrial policies," insurgent political campaigns or civil society projects (DSA), are all already captured inside the structural relationships btw the critical mass of middle class political power, capital and their joint project in civil society.