Our ruling classes have spent the past 40 years shredding the social fabric — imposing austerity, misery, and extreme inequality — while crushing any Left alternative that promised to improve people's lives. They have actively paved the way for the rise of the far Right.
When it comes down to it, the “liberal center” would rather risk handing power to fascists than accept even the remotest possibility of Socialist reform. They claim to value universal rights and civil liberties, but at base all that matters to them is capital accumulation.
Professor Jason Hickel is the author of “Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World”