The pro\u00adblem is a more gene\u00adral one, beyond this par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar ter\u00adroir. Why are so many figures on the bien pen\u00adsant Anglophone left adop\u00adting anti-eco\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal poli\u00adtics that advo\u00adcate tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies that are as inse\u00adpa\u00adrable from their fun\u00adders as the looms were from the mill owners in the age of the Luddites ? Why are these posi\u00adtions serial\u00adly plat\u00adfor\u00admed by alle\u00adged\u00adly cri\u00adti\u00adcal podia, time and again, even as their logics are sym\u00adme\u00adtri\u00adcal to those under\u00adlying efforts to force meat\u00adpa\u00adckers back to COVID-infes\u00adted pro\u00adces\u00adsing plants, where all that labor is \u201csaved\u201d? There\u2019s a through line from Trump to what counts in much of the Global North as the far left.<\/p>\n
Clearly the inter\u00admi\u00adnable omis\u00adsion reflects an inabi\u00adli\u00adty to cen\u00adter the voices of the actual\u00adly exis\u00adting eco\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcal and anti-sys\u00adte\u00admic move\u00adments in the core and per\u00adiphe\u00adry alike. Soul Fire Farms, the Savanna Institute, and the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance in the core are ren\u00adde\u00adred invi\u00adsible, as well as the more dis\u00adcom\u00adfi\u00adting and open\u00adly anti-impe\u00adria\u00adlist La Via Campesina, which expresses soli\u00adda\u00adri\u00adty with cru\u00adcial for\u00adtresses for humanity\u2019s struggle for a bet\u00adter future such as Venezuela, Cuba, and the now-fal\u00adlen Bolivia.<\/p>\n
Compare such cal\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adted disap\u00adpea\u00adrances with the Minnesota Farmers Union\u2019s recent efforts to breach the rural-urban divide in the other direction :<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve no doubt heard about the killing of George Floyd this week by a Minneapolis police offi\u00adcer. This hor\u00adri\u00adfic act and ensuing pro\u00adtests and pro\u00adper\u00adty des\u00adtruc\u00adtion have been hard to pro\u00adcess, not just for those living and wor\u00adking in the Twin Cities Metro, but all Minnesotans and Americans.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a lot to reckon with and soul-sear\u00adching to do to ensure that, at an abso\u00adlute mini\u00admum, nothing like this ever hap\u00adpens again. We have to do more than say that we condemn it, which we do. This comes on top of a dead\u00adly pan\u00adde\u00admic that has dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adte\u00adly har\u00admed people of color, inclu\u00adding in agri\u00adcul\u00adture and food sectors.<\/p>\n
As always, we are here as a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty, rea\u00addy to lis\u00adten to wha\u00adte\u00adver is on your minds and hearts. Do not rele\u00adgate this to sim\u00adply an urban issue. We can\u2019t go back to the pre\u00advious \u201cnor\u00admal\u201d post-COVID\u2014this makes it even clea\u00adrer why. We call on our public offi\u00adcials to fight back against all injus\u00adtices they can, and for eve\u00adryone to reflect on why injus\u00adtice persists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Perhaps such sop\u00adpy sen\u00adti\u00adments make us agroe\u00adco\u00adlo\u00adgists \u201cappre\u00adciate sim\u00adpli\u00adci\u00adty,\u201d not to say cla\u00adri\u00adty, to bor\u00adrow a condes\u00adcen\u00adding apho\u00adrism from a \u201cradi\u00adcal\u201d ana\u00adto\u00admy in favor of the Bolivian coup. We leave that for others to judge, if in the glare of a bank of bright bulbs shi\u00adning light the\u00adra\u00adpy right to left upon the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The pro\u00adblem is a more gene\u00adral one, beyond this par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar ter\u00adroir. Why are so many figures on the bien pen\u00adsant Anglophone left adop\u00adting anti-eco\u00ad\u00adlo\u00ad\u00adgi\u00ad\u00adcal poli\u00adtics that advo\u00adcate tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies that are as inse\u00adpa\u00adrable from their fun\u00adders as the looms were from the mill owners in the age of the Luddites ? Why are these posi\u00adtions serial\u00adly platformed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1174,2607,2592,2594,2604,2603,2605,2606,61],"class_list":["post-15363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-non-classe","tag-black","tag-campagne","tag-covid","tag-epidemie","tag-gauche","tag-pandemie","tag-rural","tag-urbain","tag-ville","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testanonpertinente.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}