https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-post-democracy/2013/10/27 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:54:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-post-democracy/2013/10/27/comment-page-1#comment-557753 Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:25:52 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=33592#comment-557753 I think it’s gravely misguided to think mass politics and the will of the majority was anything but secondary in formulating the political alternatives of the mid-20th century. To the extent that majority will was taken into account in the American New Deal, for example, it was not a case of the public acting through the state. It was a matter of the economic elites in charge of the state doing what was necessary to get mass buy-in to a system whose main purpose was to promote their own accumulation needs. As Richard Seymour in the UK recently suggested, Keynesianism was about the accumulation and realization needs of industrial capital; neoliberalism is about those of finance capital.

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