The current pandemic has generated a revolutionary situation but not revolutionaries. In a way the work of Sanders has confused everyone: the term ‘revolution’ now means Sandernista social democracy. Small wonder everyone is paralyzed.
A revolution, for sure, is a big thing, but at some point, we need to confront what the world system itself has generated, like a rabbit out of a hat. Capitalism as we know it collapsed in the pandemic, and it remains to be seen if the capitalists can revive it. But the situation is there for those who are ready to construct a new future.
At a moment of crisis, we seem to be without a left: the American system’s situation is almost a demand to revolt to forestall catastrophe. But nothing is happening. we have said it many times: the marxist model is misleading its adherents. Marx’s theories predict a socialism future. But never specify what they will be like or how to get there. It is easy to say ‘revolution’, but the revolution concept springs from the early modern and may not apply to a later period. That said, the moment of revolution is here and we should have been better prepared. It is interesting to study the BLM movement. They were prepared, sort of. The confusion arises because the solution is much simpler than we think but eludes those who apply kneejerk Marx quotes to everything.
We need, not a theory, but a recipe approach to construct a hybrid liberal/socialist system. In principle it is easy.
The literature of Marxism is vast, but there is nothing that is really practical We need a model and a new movement, that can exit the swamp of Marxist jargon and Marxist dogma to a simple recipe for a socialism that works, that is ecological, postcapitalist, with or without markets, with capital in a Commons, and a set of economic rights, along with the whole spectrum of liberal rights in a socialist context and with the issue of private property or capital seen in a correct light.
Two Manifestos version
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This strange situation in the US is like an invitation to pass to revolutionary transformation. Continue reading “The tipping point for postcapitalism…” →
