Climate Change as Class War, Levers of Power & Confronting Capitalism
Why do even the most progressive candidates that get elected cannot do and implement the changes they promised in their campaign? Partly, it’s because those who get to power were supported through legalized bribery (i.e., lobbying), which greatly limits what they stand for and what they will do while in office. But most of the power that corporations and capital have and use to put pressure on to limit politicians come from other means. The reality is that societies are structured in classes, and the capitalist and working class have opposite interests. Capitalist, Chibber argues, are not bad people (at least they don’t need not be), they simply respond to economic and market pressures. From capital strike (when corporations withhold capital and investment until governments implements ‘friendly’ policies), capital power…