Our Mission at the New Realist
Human civilisation necessitates a progressive antidote to the reactionary degeneracy destroying constitutional republicanism and the ecosphere.
The New Realist is a hard hitting left-wing independent publication calling for the complete rebuilding of the left from the ground up. The contemporary and old left has failed in achieving the goals of bringing about a free and equal society promoting prosperity, knowledge, and progress. Human civilisation and the biosphere face the existential threat posed by climate change, while progress is degenerating into reactionaryism. Only through a New Progressivism - an ultramodern left - will the tide change.
The New Realist will acerbically call out the ignoramus of the left and right who hold back progress. The right are descending into a reactionary conservatism at best if not out right fascism at worst. Meanwhile, the left is ubermoralistic lacking any practical programme for enacting its values. Both the far-right and far-left have a lot in common. Unlike in the 1930s when the far-left and far-right were radically different, we now live in a world in which the far-left is merely the far-right of the Other rather than Us.
We all live in the geological epoch called the Anthropocene- in which human action has a significant influence on the ecosphere. Yet humans are not accepting the responsibilities that fact bestows upon us both towards our fellow humans, coinhabitant species, and the environment as a whole. Humans have already wiped out 60% of species with a vertebrae on Earth. We continually and recklessly destroy our natural surroundings without remorse. The collective actions we take merely indicate guilt tripping rather than serious action addressing the consequences of our actions.
Karl Marx predicted that the contradictions within capitalism will result in its demise consequently yielding in socialism. This prediction has proven wrong. Marx did not anticipate that the contradictions of capitalism ensured the longevity of capitalism. However, capitalism's acceleration of human progress also amplifies a critical contradiction in human civilisation - the general tendency for growth even when that destroys the pillars of that civilisation. Human civilisation is inherently unsustainable if it continually grows blindly, but grow it must in the long-term.
A new political economy is needed. We must abandon the neoclassical paradigm in favour of heterodox schools such as evolutionary economics, post-Keynesian economics, the Neo-Marxian economics of Anwar Shaikh, biophysical economics, and Neo-Ricardian economics just to name a few schools. The objective of the new political economy is that it guides us through the Anthropocene sustainably and equitably by promoting ecologically sustainable prosperity. We call this new political economy "Scientific Mutualism". It is the view of the New Realist that humans must enter space so that objective is attainable. If humans stay on Earth, then we'll either destroy the ecosphere or human civilisation will become impoverished.
Success is paramount. Failure guarantees the regression of human civilisation which will take centuries, even millennia, to recover from and undermine the material and educational progress all humans have made over the last 200 years. Even worse, human civilisation could collapse entirely even resulting in human extinction. By the time people realise that Karl Marx's 'prophecy' was true, it will be too late. Fascist ultranationalism and ultra-tribalism will replace capitalism, not an economically progressive and ecologically sustainable constitutional republic.
The mission of the New Realist is simple - reinvigorate the left by promoting a scientific mutualist political economy which acts the pillar for a new progressive politics.
I (Gareth Mawer, founder of the New Realist) signed the Pro-Truth Pledge:
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