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we surely need something more modest and, admittedly, conservative than what Harris suggests.
LMAO fuck OFF
This was a terrible review. It basically boils down to “history is OVER, kid”. The quotes make me want to read Harris’ book though.
for general amusement: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/books/malcolm-harris-palo-alto.html
Ha, I came here to post that link. This one has some updates that include how the article was edited:
Tooze is an unserious lib is the takeaway home message.Palo Alto while not a short book at all, is good read imo. I guess if you’re another liberal bot likeToozeKamiya who didn’t seem to actually do the research on Japanese Americans from 1942-45, the sight of the word “marxism” is like seeing a corpse to them.nah tooze is a serious lib, but one who is ensconced in elite politics-mode, so some chartposting has some value, but political advice is whatever (also palo alto review is from some other new york crimes hack)
That’s even worse
not a conservative btw, i just want to rebuild (which is not building fyi) 50 year old institutions in exact same way. - adam tooze, probably
this hopefully singular period
material conditions? productive forces? miss me with that shit. what I want in my historical analysis is wishcasting
The third part, the radical climax of the book, is nothing less than a call for communist revolution. (Yes! You read that right.)
No way, the communist, advocates for communism?!?!
But there are differences. Rather than Indigenous movements, the authors of “Abundance” are spurred on by China’s extraordinary track record on things like infrastructure and manufacturing
Ok …
Both books have arrived at an awkward moment. Even more than “Abundance,” a book that might well have set the agenda for a Kamala Harris presidency,
No it wouldn’t have lmao. Kamala harris has a negative chance of implementing a Dengist revolution in America and creating a SWCC like system (which would also just be a communist revolution, and do more or less exactly what “What’s Left” suggests).
The sense of distance is not just dispiriting; it’s revealing. What kind of world supported such lightweight speculation about how “we” would fight environmental catastrophe?
You know what? I actually kind of agree, a little. The book (from what the review describes it as) might be putting the cart before the horse (or is the idiom the other way around? I have no fucking clue).
Whatever the world was in which it was possible to imagine American policy approaches to global problems — a world in which we debated the relative merits of Bidenomics versus Indigenous revolution — it is no longer ours.
Literally never was. Biden is just as much of an ultra-rightist who did everything in his power to move rightwards on literally everything.
this hopefully singular period
The hopefully singular period that keeps repeating itself every time capitalism has a general crisis.
I have radicalized people with Kids These Days, one of my copies is currently circulating among my friend groups. I also got my Mom to read it and now she’s trying to get others to read it. This review is making me want to read his new book now.
That’s a lot of words to say fuck the new york times.
Palo Alto was a great listen, would highly recomend it as well
