⟳ Репост от Boston Review
In my piece in BR, I tried to think of Obama's presidency as neither wholly a failure of neoliberalism nor success of liberal multiculturalism (& now white backlash), but rather a dialectical moment that contains both: a way fwd for a new kind of left politics, out of the obelisk of Obama's party
Boston Review“People believe in this program because it clearly seeks to dismantle imperial neoliberalism, not to rescue and stabilize it. While they may have walked out from the obelisk of Obama’s party, they are, in another sense, the true heirs of his promise.” @blbalthaser.bsky.social on “hope and change“: