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To be fair it feels like he was saying due to the nature of politics having evolved to a state of almost complete ubiquity in voters not associating political actions with being able to influence material conditions or a shared idea of a national project, that regardless of the whether the conditions are there, the machinations needed to “activate” change is not something we have the ability to control anymore? At least that’s what I think he was saying. I think the “it’s coming from below” thing feels a little anarchist, that conditions will just have to drive the change naturally from the bottom up as people en masse actually become more desperate and that our conception of party building is now, or like since the 70s, irrelevant. Idk if I agree with that, or if I even have his thoughts totally straight here. But anyway
To be fair it feels like he was saying due to the nature of politics having evolved to a state of almost complete ubiquity in voters not associating political actions with being able to influence material conditions or a shared idea of a national project, that regardless of the whether the conditions are there, the machinations needed to “activate” change is not something we have the ability to control anymore? At least that’s what I think he was saying. I think the “it’s coming from below” thing feels a little anarchist, that conditions will just have to drive the change naturally from the bottom up as people en masse actually become more desperate and that our conception of party building is now, or like since the 70s, irrelevant. Idk if I agree with that, or if I even have his thoughts totally straight here. But anyway