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Here is my new piece on the future of the world order, and how the most distinctive feature of 21st century international relations is that, unlike the last two centuries, it is not organized around ideology
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- Replying to @dbessnerYou’re about to see a lot fewer academic books be written
- Replying to @dbessner… is not necessarily key to the economy. As Melinda Cooper details on her recent episode of @DanielDenvir’s The Dig, our political economy is organized around asset and capital inflation—*not* the production of industrial goods by workers. This is a totally new moment and …
- Replying to @dbessner… will likely require new strategies and conceptions of inequality.
- Replying to @dbessnerThe surprising thing about the educated elite is how uneducated they are … or at least decades of pop slop psych means they didn’t read the real thinkers
- Replying to @dbessner... nature of capitalism has changed since 2008, when the gov't essentially provided the capitalist class with free money). So basically I think it's possible the bubble could pop without the widespread social effects of '08 and '29, which basically undercut ...
- Replying to @dbessner... assets people owned (houses) or relied on. At this stage in capitalism, capitalism is essentially a game only the wealthy play while the rest of us look on. Of course, things like the various 401s will be affected, and that will be bad, but perhaps one of the reasons ...
- Replying to @dbessnerPeople sometimes think my take on the fascism debate is about downplaying Trump when it’s actually about appreciating the awful new weirdness we’ve got going on in post-9/11 America
- Replying to @dbessner... the bubble can become so big is because it's actually, paradoxically, limited.
- Replying to @dbessnerAnd one of the foundational premises of capitalism since the 60s is that it’s consumer focused. If that goes away—which it is—it’ll be interesting to see if it requires a new justificatory logic or can just go on
- Replying to @dbessner… and vote (for us ofc) at the link below we’d really appreciate if it
- Replying to @dbessnerThe thing about a lot of the 2010s millennial lifestyle subsidy is that the products and rituals were mid
