The Unmanageables
Man nehme einen philantrophischen Milliardär, ein paar namhafte Investigativjournalisten und ein paar Wochen Zeit. Dass die Gründung einer journalistischen Publikation nicht immer ohne Probleme ablaufen muss, zeigt First Media mit The Intercept und Racket. Hauptproblem scheint laut Vanity Fair das Aufeinandertreffen zweier Kulturen zu sein: Projektmanager und Freigeister.
Die konsequenteste, provozierendste und düsterste Kritik des Spätkapitalismus seit langem. Von @nils_gilman. http://t.co/tugEzCP8WY
— Johannes Kuhn (@kopfzeiler) January 3, 2015
When Communism collapsed in 1989, what died was thus not just the collectivist economic system and authoritarian politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Cremated along with the corpse of Communism was the civic-minded conception of development as the central responsibility of the state and allied elites—a conception shared by communists and liberals alike during the Cold War.
Stattdessen profitieren zwei Gruppen, die, so Gilman, den Aufstand proben: Plutokraten und Kriminelle, die von oben und unten den Staat zwar nicht abschaffen, jedoch so weit es geht eindämmen wollen, um ihre eigenen Interessen durchzusetzen. „Deviant Globalization“ nennt der Historiker an der UC Berkeley diese beiden Strömungen.
The ultimate losers in all of this, of course, are the middle classes—the people who “play by the rules” by going to school and getting traditional middle-class jobs whose chief virtue is stability. These sorts of people, who lack the ruthlessness to act as criminal insurgents or the resources to act as plutocratic insurgents, can only watch as institutions built over the course of the 20th century to ensure a high quality of life for a broad majority of citizens are progressively eroded. As the social bases of collective action crumble, individuals within the middle classes may increasingly face a choice: accept a progressive loss of social security and de facto social degradation, or join one of the two insurgencies.