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The millennial left’s war against liberalism - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/07/20/the-millennial-lefts-war-against-liberalism

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The left is back — and millennials are leading the way. “Socialism” was the most searched word on the Merriam-Webster website in 2015, and a 2016 poll showed that 43 percent of Iowa Democrats described themselves as “socialists.” Despite the setback of President Trump’s electoral victory, the left continues to grow. Publications like the magazine Jacobin, launched by millennial Bhaskar Sunkara, now reach more than 1 million website visitors each month.

But the millennial left is not a return to the New Left of the 1960s — the student radicals, hippies and Yippies who raised hell in their efforts to end the Vietnam War and change American culture to make it less racist and sexist and more authentic. Rather it invokes the ideas of the Old Left of the 1930s — the militant labor unions, socialists and even communists who, in the context of the worst economic depression in American history, sought a genuine alternative to capitalism.

#gauche #Etats-Unis

Why the Tech Elite Is Getting Behind Universal Basic Income | VICE | United States
►http://www.vice.com/read/something-for-everyone-0000546-v22n1

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As if Silicon Valley hasn’t given us enough already, it may have to start giving us all money. (...) I had been hearing calls for basic income from more predictable sources on the East Coast—followers of the anarchist anthropologist David Graeber and the editors of the socialist magazine Jacobin, among others. The idea certainly has a leftist ring to it: an expansion of the social-welfare system to cover everyone. (...)

Basic income, it turns out, is in the peculiar class of political notions that can warm Leninist and libertarian hearts alike. Though it’s an essentially low-tech proposal, it appeals to Silicon Valley’s longing for simple, elegant #algorithms to solve everything. Supporters list the possible results: It can end poverty and inequality with hardly any bureaucracy. (...)

The idea of basic income has been appearing among the tech-bro elite a lot lately. Mega-investor and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen recently told New York magazine that he considers it “a very interesting idea,” and Sam Altman of the boutique incubator Y Combinator calls its implementation an “obvious conclusion.”

(...) This kind of reasoning has started to find a constituency in Washington. The Cato Institute, Charles Koch’s think tank for corporate-friendly libertarianism, published a series of essays last August debating the pros and cons of basic income. That same week, an article appeared in the Atlantic making a “conservative case for a guaranteed basic income.”

(...) A basic income designed by venture capitalists in Silicon Valley is more likely to reinforce their power than to strengthen the poor. But a basic income arrived at through the vision and the struggle of those who need it most would help ensure that it meets their needs first.

#robotisation #travail #revenu_de_base

The Undemocratic Alliance
▻http://africasacountry.com/the-undemocratic-alliance

I do a monthly radio show for #Jacobin_Radio. Listen at the link below as I discuss the South African “opposition” party, the #Democratic_Alliance's politics with another AIAC’er T.O. Molefe. In the first half I sketch the history of #liberalism in #South_Africa. The interview with T.O. starts about 22 minutes in if you’re impatient.

#MEDIA #Helen_Zille #Lindiwe_Mazibuko #Mmusi_Maimame #Tony_Leon #Western_Cape

Is Marxism Facing a Rebirth? | The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright | CBC Radio / tjs via @opironet
▻http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/shows/2013/02/24/is-marxism-facing-a-rebirth

Avec :
– Bhaskar Sunkara, “the founding editor of Jacobin magazine, one of the freshest voices of Marxism to appear in a long time. Jacobin was launched in 2010 when Mr. Sunkara was all of 21 years old.”

De Jacobin mag, il était question dans Courrier cette semaine :

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– Ursula Huws, “professor of labour and global issues at the University of Hertfordshire in England - where The Communist Manifesto was first published. She is the author of The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World .”

#marx de la matière pour #cognitariat ? cc @prac_6 @shaber33