Reddit mentions of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Not the OP, but I can answer for myself since you're avoiding engaging with my questions elsewhere.

1. Republicans name their enemy. "Welfare queens", "Washington insiders", "jihadists", etc. Few Democrats actually do this, and are generally very timid about it and use de-anthropomorphized representations of what they're against when they do. "Corporations" are not really the problem, the problem is the rich. The actual welfare queens are the superwealthy who control our economic allocation decisions through control of capital, influence our elections by control of the media and candidate financing, and hoard economic and natural resources including money, land, equipment, etc.
   
   
2. Republicans aren't concerned about "bipartisanship". Bipartisanship has always been a stupid, vapid idea that betrays the actual goals of being a progressive. The goal is to make the lives of people better, not come to some pointless arbitration of concerns with reactionary assholes who don't give a fuck if people live or die. Bipartisanship cedes intellectual and political territory to fucked up ideas, we want uncompromising progressives.
   
   
3. Republicans understand the importance of intellectual hegemony. Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Future-Postcapitalism-World-Without-ebook/dp/B00RKX35BQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494095098&sr=8-1 , if you're not a socialist (or are a different flavor of socialist) you'll likely disagree with the policy prescriptions, but the organizing prescriptions are hard to disagree with. Neoliberal reactionaries won their vision of the future through relentless dissemination of their ideas in academia, culture, and political appointments. Progressives sometimes achieve intellectual hegemony through cultural media (The West Wing is the best example I can think of, that spread this bullshit technocratic, bipartisan vision of politics that Democrats fawn over), but they've entirely ceded the ground in academia, particularly in economics and disciplines where there's crossover.