Today's global capitalism can
no longer afford a positive vision of emancipated humanity, even as an
ideological dream. Fukuyamaist liberal-democratic universalism failed because
of its own immanent limitations and inconsistencies, and populism is the
symptom of this failure - its Huntington's disease. But the solution is not
populist nationalism, Rightist or Leftist. The only solution is a new
universalism - it is demanded by the problems humanity is confronting today,
from ecological threats to refugee crises.
[…]
However, the moment we fully
accept the fact that we live on a Spaceship Earth, the task that urgently
imposes itself is that of civilizing civilizations themselves, of imposing
universal solidarity and cooperation among all human communities, a task
rendered all the more difficult by the ongoing rise of sectarian religious and
ethnic "heroic" violence and readiness to sacrifice oneself (and the
world) for one's specific Cause.
[…]
The measures Sloterdijk proposes
as necessary for the survival of humanity - the overcoming of capitalist
expansionism, achieving broad international solidarity capable to forming an
executive power ready to violate state sovereignty, and so on - are they not
all measures destined to protect our natural and cultural commons? If they do
not point towards some kind of reinvented Communism, if they do not imply a
Communist horizon, then the term "Communism" has no meaning at all.
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