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A thing that was too far afield for my @JewishCurrents interview on Trump through the lens of the BJP/global organic crisis ( https://jewishcurrents.org/neofascism-after-trump/) is the extreme flipside in the pattern: Macronism. In the Global North, becoming an ideal for nominally center parties. /1
Back in February, I wrote a piece for @thenation on a what a Macronist formation might mean in the US: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/buttigieg-macron-sanders-establishment/
Although centered on a potential Buttigieg candidacy not a Biden presidency, it paints a pretty damning portrait. /2
Although centered on a potential Buttigieg candidacy not a Biden presidency, it paints a pretty damning portrait. /2
This stands out in particular, especially given what I see as the ecological, economic, and political trends. Governing climate apartheid: /3
In these terms, it's not surprising that the EU's first official military force is a border security service. https://twitter.com/Frontex/status/1348653085422460929
@mckenziewark has a great thought experiment in her book _Capital is Dead. Is this Something Worse?_ that applies for political theory as well/4
@mckenziewark has a great thought experiment in her book _Capital is Dead. Is this Something Worse?_ that applies for political theory as well/4
There's a panoply of possible right-wing _presents_ if we think beyond 20th century analytic fetters. @Jodi7768 has productively engaged this
& it's one of the underpinnings of my work on the broad range of "right-wing climate realism" @thebafflermag https://thebaffler.com/salvos/were-not-in-this-together-chaudhary /5
& it's one of the underpinnings of my work on the broad range of "right-wing climate realism" @thebafflermag https://thebaffler.com/salvos/were-not-in-this-together-chaudhary /5
None of these outcomes are inevitable. As @sarahljaffe wrote about recently for @DissentMag, we live in an age of burnout and exhaustion. The world is _built_ for it. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/emotions-on-strike /6
This question of burnout and exhaustion - in work but also far beyond, in social and ecological terms, underwrites the inchoate repoliticization of our times. Something which I sketched out here: http://politicaltheology.com/subjectivity-a …
& is the centerpiece of unpublished climate work /7
& is the centerpiece of unpublished climate work /7
It may not be clear from my interview but I am actually far more concerned in the immediate term with what "the center which holds" does. From governing climate apartheid to branding all non-"consensus" politics as "domestic terrorism." /8
But the left (particularly in the Global North) has to be able to walk and chew and gum on neofascism and Macronism. I really believe GN left politics in the 21st century, if they are to be successful, will have much more to learn from Fanon than, like, Kautsky. /9
And we also have to walk and chew gum on issues of political economy and culture. Without what Marx's "ruthless criticism of everything existing" (which includes, you know, everything), it's not the left _and_ it won't work. But now I'm getting too far afield again. /FIN
