Progressive movements can counter-speculate against finance on its own terms

Evidence

I identify possible routes for such re-imaginings that include practices of more inclusive myth-making and collective action that seeks new ways to exploit the politics of ambivalence and unsettledness. I offer evidence that speculative communities of the post-Trump, post-Brexit era develop methods of counter-speculation: a speculative politics that does not simply resist the all-encompassing specter of finance but wields it against oppressing structures in all realms of social, political, and even intimate life. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 41

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘counter-speculation’ — the book’s proposed answer to whether speculation can be reclaimed leftward.
• QUESTION: Reader must assess whether counter-speculation actually reclaims speculative imagination or concedes ground — this passage is the crux.
• XREF: connects to: Contemporary political struggle is now fought on finance’s own terrain — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 486; Borrowing-as-resistance is a flawed but revealing form, and resistance itself is futile against finance — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 574