Here’s the fundamental problem with #cancelculture. The disciplinary instinct and the instinct to genuine social reform are opposed. To be a disciplinarian- to hunt after people who have breached the rules- is to assert implicitly that “We need to root out the bad ones”. To be a reformer, to seek to change the rules, is … Continue reading The disciplinarian and the reformer
Category: Political Strategy
Mistaken Identity and misunderstood interests: Haider and identity politics
I just finished “Mistaken identity” by Asad Haider, and like anyone who has just finished a good book I’m a proselytiser for it. My aim here is to draw out one thread of its multifaceted arguments, that the whole of the working class share a joint interest in abolishing racism in a way that is … Continue reading Mistaken Identity and misunderstood interests: Haider and identity politics
A third option in the UBI/Job Guarantee debate- shortening the working week.
Both a Job Guarantee and UBI have been proposed as solutions to the perceived threat of a decline in demand for labour following increasing automation. We’ll take it as a given that the threat is real. While automation in the past has not reduced employment, we never faced the creation of machines progressively able to … Continue reading A third option in the UBI/Job Guarantee debate- shortening the working week.
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