Guy Standing - The Left Must Embrace the Precariat - Brave New Europe

Guy Standing - The Left Must Embrace the Precariat - Brave New Europe

The right has done a better job than the left in understanding how the working class is internally divided and appealing to one section of it. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London and a founding member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), a non-governmental organisation that promotes a basic income for all. Cross-posted from Other News Picture by Fabio Omero Sustainable or …

The Left must embrace the Precariat - Other News - Voices against the tide

Guy Standing*  Sustainable or not, the USA has become a plutarchy – that is, the plutocracy has taken control and is ruling in the interests of the plutocracy. But there is a paradox. Trump and his plutocratic minions have accelerated the destruction of a world already in disorder, but in doing so are attempting to erect something that would be even worse, a world disorder based on competing empires. It could only end in tears. In the long evolu…