Sean Illing gives a preview, in an interview, of a new book
from Little Brown by Malcolm Harris, “Kids These Days: Human Capital and the
Making of Millennials”, 272 pages.
The Vox article that does the review is called “Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism”. This sounds so much like Umair Haque.
Harris seems to feel that there is something morally corrupt
about turning labor into capital. The article leads back to an earlier article about
Steven Pearlstein, who wants to save capitalism from its excessive
shareholder-driven form. Managerial capitalism isn’t so bad – but it comes down
to keeping individuals socialized and getting too deep into their own fantasies
about meritocracy. That’s supposed to happen in the families, but you have to
get individualized out from under that into intermittent periods of national or
community service, he thinks.
Harris admits the influence of Marxism, and seems to think
you can’t save neo-liberalism because it is too lost in its own idea of
self-concept. Like people need to join up.
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