Down The River - by Paul Kingsnorth - The Abbey of Misrule
Down The River - by Paul Kingsnorth - The Abbey of Misrule
Section titled “Down The River - by Paul Kingsnorth - The Abbey of Misrule”
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Paul Kingsnorth
- Full Title: Down The River - by Paul Kingsnorth - The Abbey of Misrule
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/down-the-river?s=r
Highlights
Section titled “Highlights”- Why would transnational capital be parrotting slogans drawn from a leftist framework which claims to be anti-capitalist? Why would the middle classes be further to the ‘left’ than the workers? If the left was what it claims to be - a bottom-up movement for popular justice - this would not be the case. If capitalism was what it is assumed to be - a rapacious, non-ideological engine of profit-maximisation - then this would not be the case either. But what if both of them were something else? What if the ideology of the corporate world and the ideology of the ‘progressive’ left had not forged an inexplicable marriage of convenience, but had grown all along from the same rootstock? What if the left and global capitalism are, at base, the same thing: engines for destroying customary ways of living and replacing them with the new world of the Machine?