Restore sane scale

A real community wouldn’t abide indifference. It’s bad for everyone if some people are suffering to the point of destitution or disease.

There are countries where enough in the way of communitarian sensibility remains such that common care legislation is the norm … scale and homogeneity being conducive to such.

In the United States scale and heterogeneity are not conducive to such.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/why-critical-race-theory-should-be-taught-in-schools

With each passing year, the country’s governing institutions allow Black people to die who could be saved, if whites were willing to expend a small amount of illegitimately-accumulated wealth.

Well, it’s not happening … year after year, decade after decade … and we can explain why: Scale and heterogeneity are not conducive to such.

I’m not saying not to keep trying. Waves of reformism do occur. But at the same time we have to start taking a different tack: Work toward breaking up this hypertrophied polity where there’s not enough in the way of communitarian sensibility.

https://jacobin.com/2022/08/ben-shapiro-is-wrong-about-socialism

https://jacobin.com/2022/08/left-mass-political-party-organization-sanders-aoc-dsa

Sorry, the transcending of class-divided society in this country is never going to happen. The delusions of the left frustrate me because of personal familiarity with three generations of delusion. As we re-embraced Marxism during the 1970s we studied the generation of the 1930s. Leftism came to naught during the 1930s and New Leftism came to naught during the 1970s and the New New Leftism of the Bernie era will come to naught. With each new generation there is this sorry new misdirection of energy (and of hope). Read The New Masses of the 1930s, read the New Left Review of the 1970s, read Jacobin now. Few Americans care, but I do.

We must transform the Left.