Little noticed in the West, the past two years have witnessed the largest protest wave in decades against Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian crony-capitalist government. But activists are still mentally stuck in the 1990s, deploying depoliticized concepts like “civil society” and “moral force,” and resorting to ill-conceived methods of resistance that have left the movement in a rut and unable to realize its radical potential.
What is the editorial reasoning adding the 'crony' prefix? It only seems to imply that there are other more acceptable forms of Capitalism. Is this a message Jacobin is actively promoting?
"The Jacobins supported the rights of property, but represented a much more middle-class position than the government which succeeded them in Thermidor. Their economic policy established the General maximum, in order to control prices and create stability both for the workers and poor and the revolution. They favored free trade and a liberal economy much like the Girondists, but their relationship to the people made them more willing to adopt interventionist economic policies."
When they say they are Jacobins, we should believe them.
Not to bad mouth Jacobins. Being a Jacobin was super cool and hip... In the 1790s...