Modernity’s radical politics now aims at stasis, not progress

Evidence

In fact, political radicalism in the twenty-first century is increasingly directed against continual change and aims at preservation of and stasis for the status quo. This leads Peter Glotz to surmise that at the moment deceleration is becoming “the aggressive ideology of a currently emerging and rapidly growing class (or social stratum) of victims of modernization” and is, moreover, on the verge of replacing socialist conceptions as an ideological model (Leitbild). — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 281

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: as modernization accelerates, the political polarity flips — radicalism now conserves against change while reactionaries own dynamism. A 2020s lens on the losers-of-modernization class.
• QUESTION: Does this still hold post-2016 — or has radicalism partly re-embraced change on the left? Worth verifying Glotz’s thesis against current politics.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism claims modernization while actually arresting modernity — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2240