The association between human emancipation or autonomy and affluent has been dominant in the western political imaginary since early modernity. If you accept a sort of soft landing into the state of nature, which seems to be increasingly what the firit is promising, it's impossible to hold on to this fantasy. Will also purge the social body of any unwonted elements. So that even though resources are dwindling, and they will continue to dwindle, there are more resources to go round. On the other hand, if it remains internationalist, if it continues to take a systemic view on things, many will have to live with s in material terms.
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above. Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes analyzes Bolsonarismo (the ideology and politics surrounding far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) and far-right politics everywhere.
Read Rodrigo's essays:
radicalphilosophy.com/article/of-what-is-bolsonaro-the-name
publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial
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