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A review by nb_leftist
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective
fast-paced
2.0
This is my rewrite of this review because I accidentally deleted my first one and cannot get it back :(
I was so excited for—and then disappointed by—this one. I assumed it was going to focus more on building local community through focuses on care and a rejection of neoliberal capitalist profit-motives. Instead it is a generic call for globalist capitalism to be “re-regulated” and for it to rely on “care” rather than profit. It does not provide any plan of action and follows the age-old leftist tradition of saying that we have an opportunity right now, as if it will be slightly easier than it would have been when we didn’t have “an opportunity.” It also praises AOC as bringing care back into the mainstream, which may have been the thing in 2020 for some leftists, but reading it now after AOC’s condemnation of Palestinian liberation struggles rings wack.
At best, this is a good introduction for sympathetic liberals who want to get into leftist literature, but I would give something else as this is quite surface level and still ends at a conclusion of social-democrat reform rather than the needed revolution. Sad day, I was excited for this one :(
I was so excited for—and then disappointed by—this one. I assumed it was going to focus more on building local community through focuses on care and a rejection of neoliberal capitalist profit-motives. Instead it is a generic call for globalist capitalism to be “re-regulated” and for it to rely on “care” rather than profit. It does not provide any plan of action and follows the age-old leftist tradition of saying that we have an opportunity right now, as if it will be slightly easier than it would have been when we didn’t have “an opportunity.” It also praises AOC as bringing care back into the mainstream, which may have been the thing in 2020 for some leftists, but reading it now after AOC’s condemnation of Palestinian liberation struggles rings wack.
At best, this is a good introduction for sympathetic liberals who want to get into leftist literature, but I would give something else as this is quite surface level and still ends at a conclusion of social-democrat reform rather than the needed revolution. Sad day, I was excited for this one :(