11 | Climate Politics and Global Justice (with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò)
What's Left of Philosophy
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Left Politics Isn't Instrumental Anymore
The connection between power over distribution, networks and distribution was just, you know, they were equivalencies for this generation of activists. And i think the decimation of the left, the global left, as part of the cold war has left its ideological imprint on the completely,. to me, to my eyes, to my ears, fantastical presumption that we could possibly separate these things from each other. But it's all pressure. Pressure is not pressure. Politics isn't instrumental any more. It's, it is the horizon of left politics because nothing else has is even conceivable, given that there has been such a wildly successful effort by the capitalist powers that be to end history.
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