Response to Reimagining the Left

Continuing this post, here's a response to it. I agree in that State action is required to curtail capitalism and set the necessary democratic prerequisites for the Commons to emerge on a large scale. Hence my focus on showing and supporting those social democratic (or democratic socialist) reforms needed in current government, and the candidates needed to implement those reforms. The abstract:

"Graham Murdock argues that while developing a commons for contemporary conditions is a core requirement for a post-capitalist social order, it is not in itself sufficient. It is also necessary to confront the contradictory role the state has played in the development of capitalism, as both a force for enclosure and the defense of property rights and the prime guarantor of the public goods and social conditions that facilitate commoning. The rise of neoliberal economic polices has fuelled a new push to enclosure characterized by the privatisation of previously public resources, accelerated corporate concentration, widening income inequalities, and a deepening ecological crisis. The leading digital corporations have played a central role in cementing these processes. Consequently, mobilising digital technologies for commoning requires concerted state action to reverse them and restore the public resources and social conditions that support mutuality."