you can listen this article ^^

"The Democratic Party of the 1950s and 1960s was probably much more corrupt and inept than the Democratic Party of today—but back then it lived in the neighborhood, as it no longer does today. Now the Democratic Party relies on think tanks in elite universities to find out what people back in those neighborhoods are thinking."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156000/educated-fools-democrats-misunderstand-politics-social-class

"The idea of prefigurativism is to understand and practise the behaviours and relationships we want to see as mainstream in the future; to experiment with, learn and retrain ourselves into new and better behaviours and organisational structures"

"For prefigurative politics this means that many important aspects of power and decision-making fall outside of the formal policies and structures of a party or a community group. For example, what happens during tea break, in small talk, or to the dirty dishes at the end of a meeting is as much a part of politics as the written agenda or the rules on how decisions are made."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/could-pre-figurative-politics-provide-way-forward-left/

#books

Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism, by Jeremiah Morelock
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17653_critical-theory-and-authoritarian-populism-by-jeremiah-morelock-ed-reviewed-by-j-d-evans/

The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal, by Axel Honneth
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17622_the-idea-of-socialism-towards-a-renewal-by-axel-honneth-reviewed-by-amogh-sahu-dave-schafer-ross-wolfe/

Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Philosophies, Practices, Contestations, by Ian Bruff and Cemal Burak Tansel
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17675_authoritarian-neoliberalism-philosophies-practices-contestations-by-ian-bruff-and-cemal-burak-tansel-eds-reviewed-by-lars-cornelissen/

Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century, by Mike Wayne and Deirdre O'Neill
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17681_considering-class-theory-culture-and-the-media-in-the-21st-century-by-mike-wayne-and-deirdre-oneill-eds-reviewed-by-ufuk-gurbuzdal/

Capitalism, Alone. By Branko Milanovic
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/branko-milanovic-capitalism-alone-review/

"In the end, Billion Dollar Brand Club is Chicken Soup for the MBA Soul, a reassuring collection of anecdotes that affirms, as the last paragraph of the book lovingly whispers, that there’s still “plenty of room for start-ups.” If the book testifies to anything, it’s that the best and brightest of our country’s business class have invested all of their available brain power into making once durable consumer goods disposable and continuing the atomization and dispossession of worker power by extending lean manufacturing to new realms."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/convening-citizens-panel-penzance-10-things-i-learned/

"a global survey released just before Davos found that over half of respondents believe capitalism in its current form does “more harm than good.” That belief was expressed by a majority across age group, gender, and income level divides."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/stakeholder-capitalism-in-davos/

"With such a Left absent, the Greens’ own ambitions are deeply limited. The fact that the need to make a Kurz-led government “more bearable” has become the main argument for their participation in government shows how little of an actual political vision they have."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/austria-greens-peoples-party-sebastion-kurz-coalition/

"Coca Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire in collisions. Tobacco companies hid the cancer-causing properties of their products for decades. The catalog of the ethical and moral crimes of corporations is impressive."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing/

Cities like New York, Berlin, and Austin are not “cool” because of their public transportation or how many jobs there are there; instead, they were all direct beneficiaries of a cycle in which artists, punks, and general counterculture types ended up moving there when they were still cheap, treating these underpopulated cities as places where they could live affordably and in close quarters with likeminded people, together producing the sort of radical art and culture that end up being cool enough to get vacuumed into the city’s self-conception, after which a bunch of yuppies move in and fuck it all up.