“It is not just the West’s material primacy that is at stake today but also the allure of its version of modernity.
“Unless liberal democracies can restore their political and economic solvency, the politics, as well as the geopolitics, of the twenty-first century may well be up for grabs.”
This revealing essay just appeared in the prestigious journal Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2012).
The ruling classes can see and prepare for major escalating “threats.” And we can learn from their predictions. Consider this post “reconnaissance on the enemy.”
This “crisis of governability” is deeply rooted in the very structure of worldwide production — and it frames the official politics of this system. Think through this coming election in this framework. Think through stage two of the occupations. Think through our regroupment of serious revolutionaries. The momentary and superficial is illusion, these are the deep movements marking the future of the system and its choices (and in a certain real sense the future of the people and their choices).
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