The left’s anti-elite movement energy never translated into political power

Evidence

I’m not surprised that these messages are resonating. For years I was part of internationalist left movements that protested outside meetings of the World Trade Organization, the World Economic Forum in Davos, G8 summits, and the International Monetary Fund for their roles in undermining democracies and advancing the interests of transnational capital; in the United States, we called out both major parties for being beholden to corporate donors and serving the rich rather than the people who voted them into office. This was the energy behind Occupy Wall Street, and then behind Bernie, and that coursed through various battles against new oil and gas projects. But our movement never won power. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 404

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘we never won power’ admission is the structural precondition for the Mirror World metabolizing those grievances. — connects to: EJ advocates lack the power base to win without fusing movements; Jungle carried an anti-capitalist politics that never met a matching political movement — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1271; Neoliberal-era anger lacks any political formation to channel it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1357 (+1 more)