The idea of building new institutions is basically right. You can’t fix Harvard.

But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization? The point of Harvard is the golden ticket to the upper class. The upper class now sucks (imo), so you can’t just have a better school with the same function.

Agreed.

> But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization?

If enough people replace the pet idpol/culture war issue obsessions, which were designed to keep us divided and distracted from root class issues, instead with a unified vision of what benefits the ordinary person, then there is hope for diverging from this hellscape trajectory.

Here's a starting point with some ideas:

https://jacobin.com/2019/03/sam-gindin-socialist-planning-mo...