A small minority of well-born men exercised despotic power over their fellow citizens in the name of an aristocratic conception of society, twice around 400 BCE.
After the surrender, the Athenian Ekklesia (assembly) soon divided into three camps:
* supporters of a “patrios politeia” (ancestral constitution),
* preservers of democracy,
* proponents of oligarchy’.
Debate and inaction continued until September 404 BCE, when the Spartans chose to intervene. They asked the Athenians to choose thirty men to manage all the affairs of the polis.
‘The Thirty initially avoided drafting a precise constitution. Instead, they sought to: a) establish a functional interim government; b) eliminate opponents; and c) reform the laws.’
https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Thirty_Tyrants/
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This thread will show bits of a history of the extreme centre 🧶
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"The transition from the turmoil of 1918-1919 to the bourgeois recovery of 1920-1921 was not just an episode of socialist and left-wing defeat. It was also a crisis of transformation and redirection. […]
"The need for American intervention produced a general agreement among European political leaders that self-determination, international organization, German democratization, and the preservation of capitalism and entrepreneurship should remain the baselines of for international and domestic settlement. Those elements who did not consent were intended to remain outside the new comity: on one side, the unreconstructed right, represented, for instance by the Prussian-german ruling class, or the other side, the revolutionary left.
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'The Labour administration […] intends to flatten social, political – and therefore class – conflict, and reassert the state as the sole “legitimate” agent of politics in Britain.'
'One could reasonably suggest that the particular vitriol reserved for Muslims by the Labour leadership comes down to an as yet not-entirely-tameable internationalist consciousness among Muslim communities in Britain, and their proven willingness to exert this electorally.'
Azfar Shafi writes: https://vashtimedia.com/starmers-project-depoliticisation/ @supremacy
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"Traditional" centrism, from a historical perspective, has not been a political tactic (as in a tactic designed to implement a given political project or capture power) so much as a purely electoral tactic which consists of sitting between the major political factions to be decisive when there is no absolute majority in a chamber, then negotiating your aliance therefore artificially inflating your political impact.
Centrist organizations will obviously always deny it, but even a cursory look through the history of the centre parties will show you there is no ideological or political fundation to their positions.
That is why they always became so permeable to technocratical ideas (technocracy arguably being a conservative ideology in itself) in contexts of economic growth and social stability: technocracy is the belief that you do not govern a country, you only administer it through contingencies on the basis of principles determined by the institutions themselves. As if institutions were not man-made but god-given or something.
The only true centrist belief is that centrism should perpetuate itself and that it should do it by disassociating from as many position perceived to be divisive in the public debate as possible.
A phenomenon Graeber does not analize here is the fact that this new "extreme center" is incarnated by figures from political formations that do not present themselves as centrist parties. As a matter of fact if you ask them they will most likely insist that they are neither right nor left... While refusing to identify with centrism.
My hypothesis is that this development is a consequence of the inescapable political, cultural and mediatical footprint of neo-liberalism. You can not expect to sustain your position, your career in the electoral game while governing against neo-liberal politics any more, but you can campaign as if you were opposing it, by presenting a discourse that is "critical" of neo-liberalism with an understanding that these opinions expressed will be inconsecuential once you reach power. This simulacra is what we call the extreme center.
After a few election cycles this strategy becomes ineffective, as you can only campaign to the left to then pivot and govern to the right so many times. Betrayal can never foster fidelity. And that is the era of major political crisis we are entering now on the world stage that will soon manifest itself in profound institutional crises in many countries.
https://youtu.be/-9afwZON8dU?feature=shared
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A small minority of well-born men exercised despotic power over their fellow citizens in the name of an aristocratic conception of society, on two occasions around 400 BC.
After military defeat, "the Athenian Ekklesia (Assembly) soon divided into three camps: those who favored a "patrios politeia" (ancestral constitution), those who desired to keep a democracy, and those who wanted an oligarchy." Opposition to any resolution was mainly led by the democratic faction. Debate and inaction continued until September 404 BC, when the Spartans chose to intervene. They asked the Athenians to choose thirty men to manage all polis affairs.
"The Thirty at first avoided crafting a definite constitution. They sought instead to a) establish an interim functioning government; b) eliminate opponents; and c) reform the laws".
Details: https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Thirty_Tyrants/
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“There’s never been a president as supportive in facts, not only in words, of Israel.”
The leading Democratic donor added that without Biden’s support, “Israel would be fighting this war with stones and stick.”
https://www.thewrap.com/haim-saban-biden-fundraiser-defends-president-age/ @israel
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