Sublime

Equal access to rubble is not a worthy goal.

Today’s crisis of capitalism is especially severe. Four decades of neoliberalism have driven down wages, weakened labor rights, ravaged the environment, and usurped the energies available to sustain families and communities—all while spreading the tentacles of finance across the social fabric.

Hence, the attempt to achieve social justice through the redistribution of capital wealth is inherently contradictory. The more welfare policies and state regulations that prevent the exploitation of living labor, the more restricted are the possibilities of extracting surplus value, and the less “wealth” is available to distribute in the economy.

That is the opposite of the discourse that dominates today, the one that is so very hard on people and far too soft on structures.

The Theoretical view is that the opportunities to which liberal feminists sought equal access are never equally accessible on principle and the promise of equality through liberalism is yet another lie by the powerful used to obscure the irreparable injustices inherent in the system. Theory posits that opportunities are more accessible to some (whi

Rather, he claims that it attempts to ‘create various forms of modus vivendi permitting fairer social relations’ (p. 46) in what he terms ‘everyday micro-utopias’ (p. 31).

historically specific ways in which people negotiate capitalist economic principles and national representations of capitalist dynamics.

agree with Morgan that participation is not intrinsically politically progressive. Thus, though I seek these practices’ democratic potential and look for ways they extend equal opportunities for social engagement, I also pay attention to ways they constrain or suppress those opportunities.

Trying to be less guarded, more resilient, and authentic does not preclude also trying, simultaneously, to change the structures that systematically assault our self-worth.