Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

An interview with Vanessa Wills, author of Marx’s Ethical Vision

It makes sense for a capitalist system that is stagnating/with very low growth or heading towards a slump and no sight of "a new economy" to resume growth. It would be relieved from "unproductive" people, the "strains" on pensions and elderly care, etc. Consider it part of restructuring! Like with austerity, in "normal" times some/many people have to pay for the economic crisis, shiphoning more wealth to the top 1%, saving the banks, corruption, etc. That was part of the priorities. Now some people have to be "sacrificed" during an exceptional situation. "UK doctors may be forced to decide who to save"

"I want to argue, however, that we cannot understand science or speak of its limits or boundlessness in the abstract. To speak of “science for science’s sake” — as if, to paraphrase Samuel Butler on art, science had a “sake,” is to mystify what science is and what scientists do. This mystification, still often on the lips of the ideologues of science, serves to justify specific interests and privileges. Instead, we have to consider this science in this society. I shall argue that it is indeed limited, and that its limits are provided by a combination of two major factors. The first is material, the second ideological. I will consider each in turn." Limits to Science

Keynes 2030

Hipsters and artists are the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism