PUBLIC FEED: The Future of Capitalism

“But the pandemic is also exposing weaknesses that existed before Trump’s election: a health-care system that fails the very moment when it is most needed, and a capitalist system that is unrestrained during boom times, and unimpeded when it crashes. Above all, however, it has revealed a democracy that has forgotten how to compromise.” The American Patient: How Trump Is Fueling a Corona Disaster - DER SPIEGEL - International https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-american-patient-how-trump-is-fueling-a-corona-disaster-a-024a5cc9-2c07-419a-a351-67837b47f6bb via Instapaper

“two axes are the relationship to the nation state (i.e., does the world recognize national sovereignty in the face of climate change?); and the relationship to capitalism (i.e., does the world respond to the crisis by doubling down on the importance of capital, or does it retreat from it?). They name the resulting quadrants: Climate Mao (anti-capitalist and nationalist); Climate Behemoth (capitalist and nationalist), Climate Leviathan (capitalist and globalist) and Climate X (anti-capitalist and globalist, basically ecosocialism, which they’re rooting for). But they also acknowledge that each category is too neat — a conceptual framework, not a map of our future. My own guess is that they’re right: that we won’t have any one new paradigm for climate politics, that no one prediction will come to pass in any total way, but that we will evolve those new politics along many different ideological axes.” The Glimmer of a Climate New World Order http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/climate-at-the-g-7-glimmers-of-a-new-world-order.html via Instapaper

“yet also a belief that an updated form of communism should be 21st-century society’s organising principle – these are Bastani’s main themes. The immediate temptation is to see the book as some sort of joke: a satire, or a political prank.”

Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani – a manifesto for the future | Books | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/29/fully-automated-luxury-communism-aaron-bastani-review
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“Thunberg says: “Anything less than immediately ceasing these investments in the fossil fuel industry would be a betrayal of life itself.”” POLITICO Davos Playbook: The big 5-0 — Green theme — CEO disease https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/davos-playbook/politico-davos-playbook-the-big-5-0-green-theme-ceo-disease/ via Instapaper

“A message from Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs believes sustainable finance is where the world is going—it’s no longer on the sidelines, but increasingly core to a company’s business. That’s why sustainability has become a firmwide mandate with a focus on climate transition and inclusive growth. Learn more about the firm's sustainable finance efforts.**” POLITICO Davos Playbook: The big 5-0 — Green theme — CEO disease https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/davos-playbook/politico-davos-playbook-the-big-5-0-green-theme-ceo-disease/ via Instapaper