Millenarian Predictions 2012 Special
Part of the Novara series, all on SoundCloud
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SELECTED SUMMARY
From the DSG think-tank: a short series of speculative projections for new territories of struggle and focuses for future ideological ruptures:
1 Anti-Usury Campaigns (#usury) This attitude, essentially a moral opposition not to capital but to speculation, finds its analogue in the softer and more popular end of the Occupy movement.
2 Nosterity (#nosterity) [It suggests] that to complain and dissent is equivalent to a moral failing for being unable to endure with stoicism.
3 Social Democracy as the New Utopia (#labourutopians) What built and sustained the welfare state was a model of social-democratic political organisation which simply does not exist anymore.
4 Hey! Let’s not go to work today! (#internstrikenow) How might an organisation based around the economic power of unpaid interns work?
5 Currency Zones of the future (#CZF) We’re likely to see the rapid take-up of digital currencies, LETS, time banking and formalised blackmarkets.
6 Rent crisis (#rentcrisis) Frozen wages and rising rents combine to suck out increasing chunks of the take-home wage of low- paid, precarious and key workers, and it is a recipe for social tension. Out of rent-crisis are born rent-resisters.
7 Britain’s Bread Riots (#breadriots) With wages falling in real-terms across the large British public sector, and unemployment rising against a similarly rising CPI, the issue of food poverty is once again pressing at the doors of many across Britain.
8 Crisis 2012: The Olympian State (#crisis2012) The Olympics has become a showcase endeavour to demonstrate the unity and power of the national State, with the subtext that whilst we may be suffering under austerity, England endures.
9 Autoreductionism (#proletarianshopping) Families are forced to choose between essential items for their children. Why not go shopping as a community?
