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why not go back? because reality doesn't allow for it. you can't wish away the transformations in the nature of capitalism that have happened over the past 30 years. i've thought the whole time that the ideology which enabled them was batshit...now you can see it for yourself. but we're stuck in this situation, trying to figure out something of a way forward from here, and not somewhere else. not some pre-1970 currency order--we're here. not some pre-world war 1 notion of federalism. not some strict constructionist fantasy about the magical moment the constitution was written by giants. none of that matters, except as parlor games. we're here. we don't even have adequate information to get our collective heads around the actual organization of the economy in real time--i can understand the desire to run away from all that and think that maybe some earlier arrangement worked better--but it didn't work better, and even if it did, it doesn't matter.
for the record, i'm interested politically in revolutionary politics.
i think the entire approach to organization that is coterminous with capitalism is fucked up and has to be changed for anything like a coherent equitable system to even start taking shape. but that's a longer term prospect--at the moment, again, we're here and like it or not implicated in this order, dependent on it one way or another, with varying degrees of insertion. we're talking on the internet for god's sake. think of the infrastructure that requires.
no going back. it's a waste of time to dream about it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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