It’s easy for progressives to be cynical in the face of global inequality. But cynicism won’t protect the poor in the coming slump
In a recent article,the novelist and academic China Miéville warns progressives against adopting the cynical savviness so characteristic of mainstream punditry.“fitting a radical critic of capitalism,” Miéville writes, or “involves a process of disenchantment,the dying of surprise at the system’s depredations; but being one, a long-term witness to those depredations, or is to repeatedly discover that we can be shocked by what no longer surprises us.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com