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If the flow of goods has eroded democratic sovereignty around the world, the flow of money takes this process to another level altogether.
The missing piece here has been a systematic effort to understand how cultural systems, as combinations of norms, dispositions, practices, and histories, frame the good life as a landscape of discernible ends and of practical paths to the achievement of these ends. This requires a move away from the anthropological emphasis on cultures as logics of reproduction to a fuller picture in which cultural systems also shape specific images of the good life as a map of the journey from here to there and from now to then, as a part of the ethics of everyday life.
The Future as Cultural Fact
Arjun Appadurai
Most fundamental to each GND in the Euro-American sphere, is its relationship to capitalism and imperialism: Are these agendas for governing capitalism, or for destroying it? If the answer is the former, pragmatism and realism can become firehoses dousing in despair the flames of revolutionary hope. If the answer is the latter, as it should be, then questions of “realism” should be dismissed as ideological counterinsurgency against those who not merely hope for, but need, a better world.
A People’s Green New Deal
Max Ajl
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