There is no long term without socialism

So-called "Longtermism" is reactionary, but its superficial concerns are things that socialists ought to take seriously.

On the cusp of the Mayan apocalypse a decade ago, NASA launched a public relations campaign to assure the public that they had nothing to fear from the earth’s magnetic fields. Mayans had predicted that the world would end when the geomagnetic fields reversed in 2012 — or at least, that’s what crank misreadings like The Mayan Prophecies said.¹ But it had…