'Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organisation' might turn out to be the most important book about political organizing since David Graeber's book 'The Democracy Project'. Here's an interview with the author, Rodrigo Nunes:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3810-neither-vertical-nor-horizontal

#politics #RodrigoNunes #DavidGraeber

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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.

"To be sure, the far right does not paint a rosy picture of the present. On the contrary, theirs is a narrative of civilizational conflict, in which a fantasized spirit of the Crusades is retooled to fight such enemies as migrants, independent women, and Black people. What is remarkable about this narrative, however, is how it displaces the real threats looming on the horizon into distorted, fun-house-mirror versions of themselves."

- #RodrigoNunes

https://www.publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial/

Are We in Denial about Denial? - Public Books

Across the political spectrum, people deny how bad the state of the world is. No wonder the far right’s lies have such purchase.

Public Books
"Thus, the problem with democracy is not political elites everywhere who are beholden to the interests of corporations and financial markets, but a secret cabal of pedophiles planning to institute a world government. The problem with the economy is not that capital accumulation has become so autonomous from production as to make the very rich relatively indifferent to the vicissitudes of the real economy, but that migrants and minorities are being given undue privileges."
"Finally, the problem with the environment is not climate change, but the weaponization of science by a political agenda bent on changing our lifestyles and preventing growth. Louis Althusser famously defined ideology as representing “the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.” If the reality of one’s conditions of existence becomes increasingly traumatic, should a flight further out into the imaginary not be expected?"

@strypey

Sounds to me like a caricature is being created.
Pedophile networks do exist among elites and are used for blackmail and control.

Unfettered immigration does put downward pressure on wages and extra load on the social services which disproportionately affects the working class.

Science has become politicised.

@strypey

It's possible for both the (far) right and left to have valid points. They're both blindfolded, touching the same elephant, and coming to different conclusions based on limited observations, assumptions and ideological programming

@jcbrand @strypey
Enlightened centrism