After that, progressives should extirpate the entire Ivy League.
Should Claudine Gay have resigned as president of Harvard? Are conservatives right that a rabidly pro-Hamas left has captured Harvard? Are liberals correct that the fascistic right has launched an all-out assault on academic freedom, at Harvard? The New York Times has explored these questions (about Harvard) over the course of almost 17,000 articles.
These are indeed fascinating topics. However, they ignore a key issue: That for anyone with a progressive perspective, Harvard should neither be reformed (to eliminate its wokeness) nor protected (from the forces of reaction). Rather, it should be razed to the ground.
Then, after Harvard has been razed, we must salt the earth, Carthage-style, so a new Harvard does not grow in its place. Next we have to destroy the rest of the Ivy League. Finally, anyone with enough energy left over should sail an emissions-free ship through the Panama Canal to California and obliterate Stanford.
Let’s start with a story that explains why I’m so personally committed to this cause. Then we can move on to a more rational explanation of why you should be too.
read more: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/06/claudine-gay-harvard-university-ivy-league/
You’ve correctly identified the tone of the article as hyperbole, but the solutions you’re proposing are somehow more unrealistic than the actions suggested by the article. If you could merely vote away the problem, countries that have implemented FPTP voting would have already solved it.
Building an alternative power base implacable to capital is the only way out of this crisis. Your votes have no effect on policy.
The periods when countries had “good” government were also the periods where capitalists felt threatened. We’ve had bad government for so long, the only realistic solutions left are radical ones.