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“Are we not today approaching an "outright economic depression"? Will such a prospect give rise to a properly collective counter-institution? Whatever the outcome, one thing is clear: only when we fully embrace Simon's tragic pessimism, accepting that there is no future (within the system), can an opening emerge for a radical change to come.”

“The rise of fascism is the result of the left’s failure, but simultaneously proof that there was a revolutionary potential, a dissatisfaction, which the left was not able to mobilize.”