The most important question facing the American left today.
to give up a daily banana for the sake of permanently abolishing all global poverty and exploitation.
More broadly, Harris seems to assume that a politically sovereign global working class would put a much greater premium on ecological issues, and a much lower one on income growth, than the contemporary U.S. electorate does. Given the fact that, in actually existing democracies, affluent voters areenvironmental causes than lower-income voters are, it is not obvious why this would be the case.
of all people on the planet. And people in the U.S. spend their incomes in exceptionally carbon-intensive ways, owing in part to our fondness for cars and suburban sprawl. Therefore, there is some tension between privileging the interests of thePut aside the fanciful question of how banana production would work in a global socialist state.
But none of this necessarily means that the U.S. left was wrong to concentrate on student-loan forgiveness. In the real world, political movements generally prioritize the interests of their constituents. America’s system of higher-education financing is an obscenity. Debt-burned college graduates are one of the primary social bases for left-wing politics in the U.S. So, of course, the U.S. left is going to be more attuned to their concerns than to those of workers in Zambia.
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