Mike McCarthy
@its_mccarthy
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Director of Community Studies + Sociology Prof @ucsc. wrote Dismantling Solidarity + The Master's Tools. editor @critsoc. Like: 2x2s + falling into theory holes
Joined February 2014
It is publication day! The Master's Tools shows how finance destroyed democracy and argues for "democratic ruptures" in the economy, which empower the demos to make investment decisions via sortition. Out with @VersoBooks now. Please read, engage, criticize, build and share!
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@sdgrumbine @JamesSteidle Political discourse is simple, social reality is complicated — how to square the circle?
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@oikeios I can think a handful of non-elite fight back events and organizing projects that would seem to have contributed to that narrative. But do you think ESG is of a fundamentally different logic or that both it and DEI were elite projects unshaped by movements?
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A crucially related dimension pointed out by @KeeangaYamahtta at the New Yorker
The rise of corporate DEI, in racial politics, and ESG, in environmental politics, followed a similar path. While both were meant to provide cover to corporations they were also reactions to real cultural transformations driven by the black and environmental movements. 1/4
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RT @nkulw: This is what actual, reasoned “Wokeness” commentary looks like. Not whining about Halloween costume controversies of yore
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So more deeply, they are an expression of the power of the non-elite, fractions of the working class. So while these corporate initiatives are exactly that - corporate - what does crushing them represent to the right? It represents a reestablishment of elite power in culture. end
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Let’s not get it confused, Wall Street thrives at the expense of the working class. One’s gains is another’s loss. The anxiety and struggle of workers and the opulence and waste of the elite are not endogenous to their separate worlds.
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I keep puzzling: what is the enduring foundation? What is the hard core? Is it one thing or a cartography of things? Does the foundation change or stay constant? Is it explanatory, political, or moral? Or is that itself an analytical question and its something else entirely?
Michael Burawoy understood that because the political project of socialism changes with history, Marxism itself has continually transform. He understood history is not just facts, but always seen through new eyes. From “Two Methods in Search of Science: Skocpol versus Trotsky.”
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RT @its_mccarthy: Thanks for honing in on the basic theoretical upshot of the paper for contemporary politics @jbouie! And thanks for shari…
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