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Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

im on the net me boys posted:

If I can post another gripe: I used to really like Mother Jones but now it's not that great and I'm tired of seeing Kevin Drum being a little bitch rear end

kevin drum loving sucks. he's like chait's little brother

mojo of course run that profile of richard spencer, the "dapper white nationalist"

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 19:14

Fuligin: Oct 27, 2010; wait what the fuck??

im on the net me boys posted:

The Economist has gotten so increasingly right wing over the past couple of years that I don't even want to pick it up for the foreign affairs coverage anymore. Like yeah, it was never great, but it's gotten remarkably worse since I started reading it several years ago. As far as I know there isn't another English or Spanish language weekly that has a worldwide outlook but Christ there has to be something better than what I've been settling for.

For loving real. Imo the Africa/Finance/Latin America sections can still be alright (with the usual many grains of salt) but most of it is a complete wash. The op eds in particular used to at least be written by 'smart' neolib dickheads, now they're just complete unvarnished garbage. I guess that trends with the general drift of centrist and right-wing politics over the past few years

# ? Aug 23, 2019 19:01

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Not quite done it yet but Alexander Zevin on the origins of neoliberalism in the LRB is really good.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n16/alexander-zevin/every-penny-a-vote

Choice bit:

quote:

Slobodian could have spent even longer discussing the ways in which post-imperial Vienna shaped the thinking of the two theoretical economists whose lives spanned the �neoliberal century�: Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises, born to a politically connected merchant family in Lemberg in Galicia in 1881, and Friedrich August von Hayek, born in Vienna in 1899 to a long line of ennobled industrialists from Moravia. Mises began working at Vienna�s Chamber of Commerce in 1909, and became its secretary in 1918. The Austrian School of economics, in which he and Hayek were trained, had supplied the monarchical state with royal tutors and finance ministers for three generations. Defeat in the First World War brought the empire crashing down, shorn of three-quarters of its territory and four-fifths of its population. The socialist government of the First Austrian Republic, which took office in February 1919, introduced unemployment insurance, the eight-hour working day and other social reforms. Such measures didn�t go much beyond the reforms brought in by the New Liberalism in Britain before the First World War, but for Mises they were �Bolshevism�, and would �lead Vienna to starvation and terror within a few days�. �Plundering hordes would take to the streets,� he warned, �and a second bloodbath would destroy what was left of Viennese culture.�

Mises saw himself as the �economic conscience� of a civilisation on the verge of collapse. He recommended corporate tax cuts, balanced budgets, the violent repression of unions and the cutting of wages, which had risen as a result of the war and had to be reduced �far below their prewar level� to restore competitiveness to Austrian industry on the world market. As finance minister, Joseph Schumpeter, his brilliant and erratic classmate at the University of Vienna, wanted to tackle inflation with a capital levy, which shocked Mises. When the socialist foreign minister, Otto Bauer, another former classmate, put forward a plan for limited state takeovers, Mises tried to sink it by arguing that central planning could never be implemented. Without markets to set prices, he said, there could be no efficient allocation of resources, no tallying of gains and losses; socialist management, he wrote later, would be �like a man forced to spend his life blindfolded�.

In 1921, Mises hired Hayek to work on the war reparations demanded by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. After returning home from the Italian front, Hayek had studied law at the University of Vienna, also taking classes in art history, biology and psychology, as well as making nightly trips to the theatre. The members of Mises�s Privatseminar would relocate to Caf� K�nstler in the evenings, drinking, arguing and singing about economics, philosophy and drama until 3 a.m. The picture is at odds with Mises and Hayek�s portrayals of themselves as lonely and powerless. The first neoliberals were deeply involved in the cultural world of Vienna, where the study of economics was defined by political threats from the street.

In July 1927, the acquittal of three right-wing militia members for the murder of a war veteran and a child in a working-class district set off a general strike and demonstrations. Protesters put the Palace of Justice to the torch, and the police fired into the crowd, leaving 89 dead. �Friday�s putsch has cleansed the atmosphere like a thunderstorm,� Mises wrote. �The street fight ended in complete victory for the police.� He believed Mussolini�s victory had for the moment �saved European civilisation. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.� Talk of workers� �right to the street� or of �universal, equal and direct voting rights� was often, he believed, cover for �terror and intimidation�. By contrast, he insisted to a group of German industrialists in 1931 that �the capitalistic market economy is a democracy, in which every penny constitutes a vote.� Elected by means of what he called a �consumer plebiscite�, the rich depended on the �will of the people as consumers�, even when their wealth was inherited, since it could �be preserved only by those who keep on earning it anew by satisfying the wishes of consumers�. In 1934 Mises joined the Patriotic Front, launched the year before to rally support for the Catholic conservative and nationalist regime of Engelbert Dollfuss, which banned the Nazi and Communist Parties and forged an alliance with Italy. In February, Dollfuss moved against the socialists, putting down a fitful uprising of workers in Linz, shelling Karl Marx Hof in Vienna, expelling the Social Democrats from parliament and passing a new corporatist constitution. He was assassinated in an attempted Nazi coup in July.

# ? Aug 30, 2019 15:25

R. Guyovich: Dec 25, 1991

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I've heard that Financial Times is good reading for leftists because it's made for the ruling class to read, not just propaganda for the rest.

i also "heard" that (from a c-spam poster) (repeating something he heard from a podcaster)

# ? Sep 3, 2019 02:09

R. Guyovich: Dec 25, 1991

GalacticAcid posted:

It�s the best of the daily papers yes. And like all things you�ve got to read between the lines

Monthly Review is great but it�s not a substitute for the international news roundups in Economist. It�s always really dense, often theoretical work. An equivalent left wing , or at least not psychotically right wing, weekly would be welcome. I guess there�s the nation? I�ve never subbed to that tho so I�m not sure

the nation has a couple good authors like tim shorrock but it's generally your standard liberal pablum on Other Countries and even domestically. non-glossy jacobin with worse graphic design

# ? Sep 3, 2019 02:11

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

So many trot orgs and not a single good weekly Newspaper

# ? Sep 3, 2019 02:12

Forums Terrorist: Dec 8, 2011

R. Guyovich posted:

i also "heard" that (from a c-spam poster) (repeating something he heard from a podcaster)

who was repeating something she read from noam chomsky

# ? Sep 3, 2019 09:10

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Shear Modulus posted:

theres some old quote about how theres a universal amnesia where people can read the newspaper and find an article about a subject they are an expert in and get frustrated with how completely wrong the article is about everything, then they move to the next article and completely forget that the paper just torpedoed its credibility in their mind and always assume that the next article they are reading is accurate

this subforum suffers from this really bad when it comes to global warming coverage

like for real most global warming coverage is complete and utter poo poo thats disproved in maybe a month when more data comes in but thats the only thread and topic where people will unironically post cnn and the guardian coverage without remembering that those periodicals are mercilessly mocked in literally any other context

# ? Sep 3, 2019 14:00

im on the net me boys: Feb 19, 2017; Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis

It seems that ThinkProgress has shut down and 12 staff were laid off. https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1170023170767761413?s=19

# ? Sep 7, 2019 14:11

Algund Eenboom: May 4, 2014

This is a good new website/magazine with two articles i like a lot

http://homintern.soy/posts/workcap.html

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The Tronti that wrote Workers and Capital (who is not the current-day Tronti by any means, more on that at the end) would be rather annoyed by Verso�s exhumation of his essays. We are so far from operaismo�s Italy�its militancy, its political economy, and its enemy in social democracy. Parts of it may appeal to us: there is a macabre fetish for an Umwelt which can obsess over theoretical issues with practical problems outside of the university and the reading group. But Tronti warns: �we are against the present society, but that does not mean that we are for the world of the past�.

There is no running back the clock. If Marxism exists today as a material force in the aforementioned Euro-Amerikan core, it is entirely comprised of factions swearing differing historiographic fealty to esoteric models of revolutionary moments that almost kinda worked. 1917, 1933-36, 1956, 1968, 1977, 1990, 2008, whatever. This is what makes Workers and Capital, as well as the best of operaismo more broadly, essential: it tells us to look away from all that. The past is useless and the future is stupid. �No worker who is fighting against a boss is going to ask, �And then what?� The fight against the boss is everything�.

...

In five years time, will we all be in a union? Maybe. But it won�t matter. This is precisely Tronti�s point: the creation of working-class edifice may begin auspiciously but always ends within capitalist control. So of course unionization today is necrophilia. Capital will not be buried under a proliferation of unions unless those unions endeavor to bury capital, unless those unions are a living manifestation of the organization of the working class. Being in a union is better than not being in one, of course. The same goes for the parties which were never the vanguard but cryptkeepers, keeping the light on throughout the long �fin de si�cle� (lol). The revolution isn�t happening in the VICE union or in the DSA Brooklyn happy hour. But what is there to do when there isn�t a factory to distribute leaflets in front of, as Tronti describes the early operaisti doing?

To become revolutionary, the concept of the working class itself needs to be once again reignited�we need to once again notice ourselves in history, and in this sense, the unions are a first step. To progress further, a theoretical period of constitutive reflection is required. The proletariat needs its own �laws of development�, just as capital does, and it needs its own history, but this history is not one of events but of the increasing refinement of its theoretical and practical weaponry, less a manuscript than a knife slowly being honed.

http://homintern.soy/posts/wemachines.html <--- Highly suggested reading

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Amazon imparts a similar laissez-faire attitude in their hiring process and in their overall labor regime, except this is for a world in which the mass consumer base of imperialism is a prime mover and the workforce is expected to ply the same poo poo job for years at a time. The company exercises such a lack of discrimination in order to absorb local masses of the unemployed, or semi-employed, and quickly turn them out. The company doesn�t care where you come from, what you want, or where you�re going; the company wants your productivity and your time. The fact that the company,the management, and your supervisors don�t, in fact, pretend to give a poo poo about you feels quite liberating at first. This is just the first element of Amazon�s whole self-government.

On the other hand, the turnover rates have been spiked by the points system and your initial seasonal contract. �Initial seasonal contract,� as in �terminable at any time for any reason,� and �points system,� as in �easier to fire if you score a steady contract.� The former is pretty self- explanatory but the latter is kind of unique.

The points system is directly governed by Amazon�s AI and by its company software. The idea is each point, out of a maximum of twenty, is a demerit; nine points as a seasonal worker or thirteen points as a regular employee means you�re fired. If you want a shift or half a shift off, that�s a point hit. If you dip below the productivity rates they are continuously tracking and logging on shift, that�s a point hit. If you spend some �time off-task,� to get some water or go to the bathroom, that�s a point hit. If the supervisors just want to gently caress with you, because they don�t like you, that�s a point hit.

UPS employs a similar system, but the difference is you get a union rep after 30 working days and the whole process is mediated by actual human beings. At Amazon, this is mediated almost entirely by the AI, and the AI is like a very distant and stupid god. This is good for eliminating the human interface � like when you lie to get out of a shift you don�t have to worry about how bad you really are at lying; but it dissolves any kind of leverage you might attain from a real social environment. The company�s social environment is almost completely virtual, in fact. The company counts on you being out of there in a month or three, so there�s less time for you to really get upset about it.

# ? Sep 14, 2019 18:51

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Mr. Langewiesche wrote an indepth article on the 737 max crashes which passed muster in the aviation thread:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/magazine/boeing-737-max-crashes.html

# ? Sep 21, 2019 02:16

dpf: Sep 17, 2011

Lots of good content in this month's LRB.

Ex-MP Denis McShane sends in a letter

quote:

The following entry in my (unpublished) diary for 22 June 2009 seems appropriate to the moment:

�The big story of course is the election of the speaker. I had agreed to nominate Margaret Beckett because there�s something about John Bercow I don�t understand. But as I thought about it over the weekend I decided that Margaret Beckett or George Young were speakers for the House of Commons looking inwards to itself and its own. Bercow for all his faults was a speaker for outside and for the people even though he has many many faults and question marks over him.

�I went yesterday to speak to the Board of Deputies of British Jews at the National Union of Teachers headquarters off Euston Road. It was like speaking to an NUJ Congress with lots of energetic and active people with aggressive views on lots of issues. I made the point that the Daily Mail was a permanently xenophobic paper picking on Poles today as it picked on Jews in the 1930s. And I gave as an example a Mail on Sunday article attacking Bercow which described him as �oily� � one of the traditional slur adjectives used against Jews.

�The Tory establishment and Tory MPs are very hostile to Bercow and I fear that there is some unconscious or possibly even some conscious antisemitism in that reaction. At any event, after the second ballot for the speaker I saw Bercow and Julian Lewis standing in the Members� Lobby by themselves just outside the doors that lead into the chamber. I went up to chat to them and straightaway both were asking me how John�s speech, which was quite cheeky with a good imitation of Peter Tapsell and a joke at the end about his being rather small but he could grow into the job, had gone. I said it was fine, fine. And then of course it hit me that Julian and John are both London Jews who have thrown their lot in with the Conservative Party and tried to please it by being very right-wing and anti-European and anti-communist. But the Conservative Party only has a limited toleration for pushy Jews. Julian and John are wonderfully fluent on their feet, able to rattle out whole sentences and paragraphs without any break at all. And yet neither has been given any real promotion or preferment. Minor front bench jobs after many years of actually being much better as back bench MPs � But in the end the old Etonian Anglican Tory Party isn�t gonna find much space for the old Estonians. So instead they make a power grab for what they can get because of the disaster of the expenses and the incompetence of Michael Martin, namely, the speakership. And it comes off as Bercow is elected on the second ballot. Straightaway the Daily Mail goes into overdrive to denounce and trash him as incompetent and a fiddler, a cheat, not really a good MP, perhaps not even English. In other words, Jewish. The ghastly, evil Quentin Letts who destroyed Michael Martin�s confidence by calling him �Gorbals Mick� doesn�t quite hit Bercow by calling him �John Jewboy� but the implication is there. It�s at times like this that I really hate British Conservatism.�

Denis MacShane
London SW1

Christopher Clark on how Bismark is Cummings' political idol -> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/christopher-clark/short-cuts

William Davies on Corbyn/Johnson comparative study -> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/christopher-clark/short-cuts

# ? Sep 28, 2019 17:43

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

dpf posted:

Lots of good content in this month's LRB.

Ex-MP Denis McShane sends in a letter

Christopher Clark on how Bismark is Cummings' political idol -> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/christopher-clark/short-cuts

William Davies on Corbyn/Johnson comparative study -> https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/christopher-clark/short-cuts

same link?

# ? Sep 28, 2019 18:48

im on the net me boys: Feb 19, 2017; Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhjhhhhhhjhhhhhhhhhjjjhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cannabis

https://twitter.com/333333333433333/status/1179969554317037569?s=19

# ? Oct 4, 2019 05:04

doug fuckey: Jun 7, 2007; hella greenbacks

im on the net me boys posted:

https://twitter.com/333333333433333/status/1179969554317037569?s=19

do stores genreally get them first i'd subscribe but it gets me out of the house

# ? Oct 5, 2019 00:35

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

i think i got mine two days ago

# ? Oct 5, 2019 01:25

Gunshow Poophole: Sep 14, 2008; OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069; Clapping Larry

the Lorelei Lee article in no. 35 about sex work is really spectacular

# ? Oct 19, 2019 18:26

Gunshow Poophole: Sep 14, 2008; OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069; Clapping Larry

it's online now

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/

# ? Oct 27, 2019 18:37

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

The New Republic has published a really good story on Boeing's collapse

quote:

A return to the �problem-solving� culture and managerial structure of yore, he explained over and over again to anyone who would listen, was the only sensible way to generate shareholder value. But when he brought that message on the road, he rarely elicited much more than an eye roll. �I�m not buying it,� was a common response. Occasionally, though, someone in the audience was outright mean, like the Wall Street analyst who cut him off mid-sentence: 

�Look, I get it. What you�re telling me is that your business is different. That you�re special. Well, listen: Everybody thinks his business is different, because everybody is the same. Nobody. Is. Different.� 

# ? Nov 15, 2019 14:09

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Gunshow Poophole posted:

it's online now

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/essays/cashconsent/

well that was surprisingly unconvincing she starts out with a creepy older dude stealing all her money and then moves on to other people coming up with increasingly elaborate ways to rip her off and violate her via sex work all the while insisting that regulation of any kind is bad because solutions are complicated in ways she cant be bothered to describe even though she has multiple paragraph digressions in the form of personal anecdotes or nineteenth century history lessons

this is a pretty consistent problem i have with these stories is that theyre describing stuff that should be and usually is illegal in any other context but theyre acting like the real problem is anti sex work stigma where she really lost me is when she started going on about how metoo was bad actually since rich white women telling their stories of being sexually assaulted makes it harder for sex workers to tell those stories somehow

# ? Nov 15, 2019 15:40

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

https://twitter.com/nikilsaval/status/1201951064125296641?s=21

Regular n+1 contributor Nikil Saval is running for state senate.

# ? Dec 6, 2019 17:38

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

The New York Review of Books: The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the �Brexit Election�

by David Graeber

# ? Jan 14, 2020 12:47

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

The New York Review of Books: The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the �Brexit Election�

by David Graeber

This is good, thanks for sharing it.

# ? Jan 14, 2020 14:22

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

gradenko_2000 posted:

The New York Review of Books: The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the �Brexit Election�

by David Graeber

This is a good article, thank you. Let me post a bit:

quote:

Still, I don�t think this quite explains the vehemence, even passion, that marked so much of the internal opposition to Corbynism. Centrists, after all, consider themselves pragmatists. For forty years the center had been drifting steadily to starboard. So what if it jumped a ways to port? It might have been abrupt, but it�s not as though anyone was proposing the abolition of the monarchy or the nationalization of heavy industry. They could adjust. A handful even did. The panicked reaction of the majority, however, only makes sense if the threat was on a far deeper level.

Most sitting Labour MPs had begun as Labour youth activists themselves, just as most centrist political journalists had begun their careers as leftists, even revolutionaries, of one sort or another. But they had also risen through the ranks of Blair�s machine at a time when advancement was largely based on willingness to sacrifice one�s youthful ideals. They had become the very people they would have once despised as sell-outs.

Insofar as they dreamed of anything, now, it was of finding some British equivalent of Barack Obama, a leader who looked and acted so much like a visionary, who had so perfected the gestures and intonations, that it never occurred to anyone to ask what that vision actually was (since the vision was, precisely, not to have a vision). Suddenly, they found themselves saddled with a scruffy teetotaling vegan who said exactly what he really thought, and inspired a new generation of activists to dream of changing the world. If those activists were not naive, if this man was not unelectable, the centrists� entire lives had been a lie. They hadn�t really accepted reality at all. They really were just sellouts.

# ? Jan 14, 2020 20:41

Helianthus Annuus: Feb 21, 2006; can i touch your hand; Grimey Drawer

gradenko_2000 posted:

The New York Review of Books: The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the �Brexit Election�

by David Graeber

thx for the link

quote:

Whereas the core value of the caring classes is, precisely, care, the core value of the professional-managerials might best be described as proceduralism. The rules and regulations, flow charts, quality reviews, audits and PowerPoints that form the main substance of their working life inevitably color their view of politics or even morality .

...

For most care-givers, however, these people are the enemy. If you are a nurse, for example, you are keenly aware that it�s the administrators upstairs who are your real, immediate class antagonist. The professional-managerials are the ones who are not only soaking up all the money for their inflated salaries, but hire useless flunkies who then justify their existence by creating endless reams of administrative paperwork whose primary effect is to make it more difficult to actually provide care.

This central class divide now runs directly through the middle of most parties on the left. Like the Democrats in the US, Labour incorporates both the teachers and the school administrators, both the nurses and their managers. It makes becoming the spokespeople for the revolt of the caring classes extraordinarily difficult.

All this also helps explain the otherwise mysterious popular appeal of the disorganized, impulsive, shambolic (but nonetheless cut-to-the-chase, get-things-done) personas cultivated by men like Trump and Johnson. Yes, they are children of privilege in every possible sense of the term. Yes, they are pathological liars. Yes, they don�t seem to care about anyone but themselves. But they also present themselves as the precise opposite of the infuriating administrator whose endless appeal to rules and demand for additional meetings, paperwork, and motivational seminars makes it impossible for you to do your job. In the UK, the game of Brexit politics has been to maneuver the Labour left into a position where it is forced to identify itself with that same infuriating administrator.

my main takeaway: left wing parties will not be able to benefit from a wave of populism, because they represent the interests of an unpopular technocrat minority (centrism) over the working class majority that should ideally constitute the party

# ? Jan 14, 2020 21:20

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

think i might finally subscribe to the ny review of books

# ? Jan 14, 2020 21:23

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Shear Modulus posted:

think i might finally subscribe to the ny review of books

Is the review of books linked to the NYT in any way?

# ? Jan 14, 2020 23:36

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Nebakenezzer posted:

Is the review of books linked to the NYT in any way?

No.

# ? Jan 14, 2020 23:37

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

GalacticAcid posted:

No.

Thanks, I've no idea where I got that notion from. They seem legit good.

# ? Jan 14, 2020 23:41

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

I've maintained a subscription since 2013 and have never regretted it. Like anything, it has to be read critically and some of their essayists skew towards Cold War Liberalism, though that tendency appears to be on the wane within the publciation since Silvers died and Buruma got ousted

# ? Jan 14, 2020 23:49

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Nebakenezzer posted:

Is the review of books linked to the NYT in any way?

theyre both in new york

Nebakenezzer posted:

Thanks, I've no idea where I got that notion from. They seem legit good.

the new york times has a vertical called "the new york times book review"

# ? Jan 14, 2020 23:49

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Speaking of the New York Review of Books, Fintan O�Toole�s �The Designated Mourner� on Joe Biden is fantastic. Thoughtful, reflective, and critical with a fundamentally humane tone. In particular it includes some startling insights into the political uses ( & abuses) of Irish-American identity.

A lot of c-spammers will dislike it for not being screechy enough in its denunciation but I highly recommend it and shared it with a few friends and relatives.

# ? Jan 15, 2020 03:46

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

vyelkin posted:

This is good, thanks for sharing it.

This is a good thread in general, even if it moves slowly.

# ? Jan 15, 2020 03:53

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

GalacticAcid posted:

Speaking of the New York Review of Books, Fintan O�Toole�s �The Designated Mourner� on Joe Biden is fantastic. Thoughtful, reflective, and critical with a fundamentally humane tone. In particular it includes some startling insights into the political uses ( & abuses) of Irish-American identity.

A lot of c-spammers will dislike it for not being screechy enough in its denunciation but I highly recommend it and shared it with a few friends and relatives.

Thanks, I thought this was a good read too. Some posters I think take stridency like toxic femininity takes thinness: you can never have enough and even when you hit the target, they just look at you and say "am I supposed to be impressed?"

Article: so..............this new rolling stone article dropped. Would you be surprised to learn that fracking has been exposing thousands of people to dangerous levels of radiation via contaminated waste water?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/

# ? Jan 23, 2020 03:25

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

I'm only halfway through it but so far this LRB article on early 20th-century socialism in Glasgow is really good.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n01/jean-mcnicol/the-atmosphere-of-the-clyde

# ? Jan 23, 2020 03:36

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

On nihilism as a defense mechanism and why it doesn't work

# ? Jan 24, 2020 18:11

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

New York Review of Books: milhist favorite Adam Tooze reviews "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality".

# ? Feb 1, 2020 17:02

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Tooze owns, think I linked a couple of his things in the OP

# ? Feb 1, 2020 19:53

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Here's a lengthy article about how socialism is good:

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/three-cheers-socialism

# ? Mar 8, 2020 21:33

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 19:14

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Nebakenezzer posted:

New York Review of Books: milhist favorite Adam Tooze reviews "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality".

Is the MilHist in A/T still full of unironic monarchists who get made when you propose something as radical as "maybe the proletariat had some legit grievances in 1917?"

# ? Mar 8, 2020 21:39

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