>what I call capitalism's standard operating procedure: creating
>poverty alongside wealth, instability, anxiety, ill-health,
>alienation, etc. To call them "crises" is to misname them, in fact -
>the word should be reserved for exceptional states, not an awful
>daily reality. If we can't tune our critique to the "normal," then
>why should anyone listen to us?
Put that way, left crisis theory has much in common with left conspiracy theory.