{"id":30328,"date":"2018-01-30T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30328"},"modified":"2018-01-30T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T13:52:14","slug":"the-supersedure-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30328","title":{"rendered":"The Supersedure State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Supersedure State<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I said that I wanted to focus on the shape of possible agrarian, post-capitalist states of the future in my forthcoming writing, so I thought I\u2019d anticipate that here by reproducing my article from the current issue of\u00a0The Land\u00a0<\/em>magazine (Issue 22, 2018, pp.28-30). The editors of that august journal in their wisdom entitled it \u2018The human hive\u2019 (and accompanied it with some beautiful woodcut illustrations of an apian nature), but here it goes under my preferred title of \u2018The supersedure state\u2019. My next few posts are going to attend to various other items of business \u2013 though some of them do bear on this theme \u2013 but I thought I\u2019d lay this out now as a kind of organising concept for the things I want to write about agrarian states, which I\u2019ll try to fill out in more detail on this site shortly. So I\u2019ll be coming back to this \u2013 but in the meantime, of course I\u2019d welcome any comments. I\u2019m not sure if this is exactly the same version as the one that appeared in\u00a0The Land<\/em>, but I think it\u2019s close enough.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The tumult of recent political events in many western countries has brought a new word to the lips of political commentators \u2013 populism. Generally, populism and its personification in figures such as Donald Trump and Nigel Farage has been presented in mainstream circles as a dangerous political turn, a threat to the established order of things, and not without good reason. But for those who\u2019d like to replace the present global neoliberal economy with a more local, more equitable and more land-based or agrarian society there are overlaps with populism that raise a few questions \u2013 in particular, these three:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u2018Populism\u2019 means a politics of or for \u2018the people\u2019, which doesn\u2019t sound like such a bad idea \u2013 so what\u2019s the problem with it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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