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The idea of building new institutions is basically right. You can’t fix Harvard. But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization? The poin
by IceHegel 2y ago
The idea of building new institutions is basically right. You can’t fix Harvard.
But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization? The point of Harvard is the golden ticket to the upper class. The upper class now sucks (imo), so you can’t just have a better school with the same function.
- swed420 2y agoAgreed. > But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization? If enough people replace the pet idpol/culture war issue obsessions, which were designed to keep us divided and distracted from root class issues, instead with a unified vision of what benefits the ordinary person, then there is hope for diverging from this hellscape trajectory. Here's a starting point with some ideas: https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin-socialist-planning-models https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin-socialist-planning-mo...