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GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

The Mann essay pairs well with Other People�s Blood, Tim Barker�s essay on the Volcker Rule for n+1.

Self quoting for new page, Mann essay ~

GalacticAcid posted:

Irrational Expectations

# ? Apr 30, 2020 20:52

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Man Musk: Jan 13, 2010

The Economist had an interesting piece on the future of the GOP, which I have pasted below for your reading pleasure:

quote:

FOLLOWING THE strangely tidy conclusion to their presidential primary, the Democrats are marching in lockstep. This week Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, queen of the #MeToo movement, dismissed an allegation of sexual assault against Joe Biden on the basis that the former vice-president had denied it. Al Franken and Brett Kavanaugh would have been glad of the same treatment.

Meanwhile the Republicans appear to be trying to fill the role of feuding opposition their rivals have vacated. The only stiff resistance to the $3trn stimulus authorised by Congress came from their ultra-libertarian wing. One of its members, Congressman Thomas Massie, accuses his colleagues of �abandoning� conservative principles by tiding over America�s shuttered economy. It seems he was not mollified by Mitch McConnell�s more tactical small-governmentism, displayed in the Senate leader�s opposition to bailing out stricken Democratic states. Larry Hogan, the pragmatic Republican governor of Maryland, called letting states go bankrupt �complete nonsense�. Meanwhile a former compadre of Mr Massie in the House Freedom Caucus, Justin Amash, declared a plan to run for president for the Libertarians.

Another querulous Republican faction looks closer to the grain of the crisis. Led by some of the most interesting conservative thinkers, including Yuval Levin and Oren Cass, plus a handful of senators, it rejects Mr Massie�s market fundamentalism and takes a more flexible and positive view of government than most Republicans have since the 1970s. Its members, who include Trump-style populists and the remnants of a reform conservative movement that began in the doldrums of George W. Bush�s presidency, want to turn the party�s attention from economic freedom to socioeconomic outcomes, from corporations to workers. A pro-poor redesign of one stimulus bill by Senators Tom Cotton, Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, all affiliated with this faction, was an indication of its growing alignment. Its members believe the crisis has validated their position and pushed it to the centre of politics.

Mr Rubio said as much in a searing critique of his party�s economic libertarianism in the New York Times last week. He connected the damage it has done to some working-class communities, the loss of industrial capacity exposed by the crisis and the absence of adequate stockpiles of the medical supplies America no longer makes. All, he argued, are products of a misguided homage to economic efficiency, rooted in a �hyperindividualistic ethos�, that the coronavirus has shown to be self-defeating as well as immoral. To address these inadequacies, he would boost domestic production through a range of industrial and labour policies.

Mr Cass, who on May 5th will launch an impressive organisation of this dissident faction, called American Compass, would go further. A former policy director for Mr Romney, he describes the crisis similarly as an indictment of an �economic piety� that ignores many values that markets do not capture, including the well-being of American workers and development of future industries. �Supply chains are much more than whoever is promising to make something more cheaply tomorrow,� he says. In an influential book on labour-market reform, he has proposed a range of novel fixes, including wage subsidies and labour unions, and some familiar ones, including more aggressive deregulation than even Mr McConnell might consider feasible.

Politics does seem to be moving towards the dissidents. With the government standing between millions of Americans and ruin, hardly anyone, maybe not even Mr Massie, will propose starving the beast for a bit. The crisis is also likely to slow and, in specific industries such as health care, reverse globalisation. Yet the Republican quarrelling and rise of the dissidents are mainly a response to the equally disorientating reality of Donald Trump.

The president�s lack of attachment to any Republican faction has encouraged all to claim to be the animating spirit of his revolution. The Freedom Caucus claim him for their pugnacious anti-establishmentarianism. The small-government establishment notes that his only big legislative achievement was the tax reform it designed. The dissidents claim more convincingly to be offering solutions to the working-class grievances Mr Trump highlighted on the trail, even though he has since jettisoned them.

This may explain why their programme seems more political than the cerebral Mr Cass would care to admit. There is a rational and, given his focus on strengthening institutions, conservative case for his proposed labour-market reforms. The same cannot be said for the immigration curbs and laissez-faire attitude towards climate change he also advocates. Both look like pandering.

That is forgivable to a degree. Even critics of Mr Rubio and Mr Cass should recognise that their proposals are the most direct answer to the president�s ethno-nationalism available. Going back to the hoary question of whether his working-class fans were incited more by economic or by racial anxiety, Mr Trump�s behaviour suggests he thinks it was the latter; Mr Rubio et al refuse to accept that.

Neoreformacon-ism

The irony of this is that they have fashioned a virtuous Trumpian agenda that has little or no chance of being promulgated under Mr Trump. No more are the libertarians or small-government pharisees or pragmatists like Mr Hogan hopeful of influencing his scattergun administration. All are wrestling to claim the post-Trump future of their party�which leads to two further conclusions.

First, that future will be determined not by ineluctable socioeconomic forces but by whoever wins the party�s next presidential nomination. The Democrats� embrace of fiscal rectitude in the 1990s now looks inevitable. But had Bill Clinton not scrambled to a second-place finish in New Hampshire, it would not have happened. Second, the fact that Republicans are feuding only six months from a general election suggests that many of them believe their post-Trump future may not be far off.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/05/02/conservatism-in-the-crisis

Man Musk has issued a correction as of 03:49 on May 4, 2020

# ? May 4, 2020 03:44

Centrist Committee: Aug 6, 2019

Man Musk posted:

The Economist had an interesting piece on the future of the GOP, which I have pasted below for your reading pleasure:

quote:
whoever wins the party�s next presidential nomination

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/05/02/conservatism-in-the-crisis

If 2016 wasn't the last presidential election, then 2020 definitely seems like it would be, at least in any form we'd recognize.

# ? May 4, 2020 05:02

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

https://twitter.com/henrykrinkie/status/1258551865626652672?s=21

👍

# ? May 8, 2020 04:14

Red Dad Redemption: Sep 29, 2007

GalacticAcid posted:

https://twitter.com/henrykrinkie/status/1258551865626652672?s=21

👍

Thank you!

(By the way, the index hierarchy was pretty amusing: Business and Industry>Business>Monthly Review; other titles include ABA Bank Marketing and Accounting Review)

# ? May 9, 2020 01:32

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

I'm finally getting around to reading a couple back issues of the LRB, so here are a couple suggestions:

Adam Tooze on the economic impacts of Covid-19

Jeremy Harding on Extinction Rebellion

# ? May 13, 2020 21:36

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

i finally read the geoff mann essay. it's good

# ? May 14, 2020 01:01

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Nikil Saval of n+1 won his primary election yesterday

# ? Jun 3, 2020 15:03

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

# ? Jun 4, 2020 21:07

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

That�s a money hookup, thank you

# ? Jun 4, 2020 21:11

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Asad Haider in Viewpoint - No Justice, No Peace

Lucid analysis & defense of that slogan, drawing extensively on MLK's body of work, and applied to the current sphere of urban street struggle. Highly recommend.

# ? Jun 5, 2020 16:52

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

GalacticAcid posted:

Asad Haider in Viewpoint - No Justice, No Peace

Lucid analysis & defense of that slogan, drawing extensively on MLK's body of work, and applied to the current sphere of urban street struggle. Highly recommend.

Really good, thanks. I'll second the recommendation for any lurkers.

# ? Jun 5, 2020 17:20

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

Well, CSPAM can stop perpetually arguing about it: The Myth of the Kindly General Lee

It's the Atlantic but Adam Serwer

# ? Jun 5, 2020 21:41

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Not that I have the highest esteem for the general political consciousness of the c-spam forum but surely there�s not a significant population of Lee defenders..?

# ? Jun 5, 2020 22:15

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

GalacticAcid posted:

Not that I have the highest esteem for the general political consciousness of the c-spam forum but surely there�s not a significant population of Lee defenders..?

Lol, no, I was being sarcastic. The author is that dude who wrote that good editorial about the Nazis always being trolls? I know I read it in CSPAM, not quite sure where.

# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:05

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Ahhh word I missed that. Carry on.

# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:51

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Another open-access academic article:

Julian Go, "The Imperial Origins of American Policing: Militarization and Imperial Feedback in the Early 20th Century," American Journal of Sociology 125, no. 5 (March 2020): 1193-1254.

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Abstract:

In the early 20th century, police departments across America�s cities enhanced their infrastructural power by adopting various tactical, operational, and organizational innovations. Based upon a nested cross-city analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, including a negative binomial regression analysis of the determinants of militarization, this study reveals that these innovations constituted an early form of militarization resulting from imperial feedback. Local police borrowed tactics, techniques, and organizational templates from America�s imperial-military regime that had been developed to conquer and rule foreign populations. Imperial feedback occurred as a result of imperial importers, many of them veterans of America�s imperial-military apparatus, who constructed analogies between colonial subjects abroad and racialized minorities at home. The study identifies an early form of police militarization, reveals the imperial origins of police militarization, and offers a potentially transportable theory of imperial feedback that stands as one among other possible routes to police militarization.

Great reading on the history of US police militarization, and a fantastic rebuttal to anyone who says militarization is a recent phenomenon that could be easily undone. Go dates it back over a century and links it heavily to the importation of imperial occupying tactics from abroad, especially the counter-insurgency warfare US forces conducted in the Philippines after conquering it in the Spanish-American War. These tactics were then brought back stateside by military veterans who entered America's police forces and transformed them into militarized occupation forces, helped by the fact that the veterans/police saw their job as the same in both places: imposing order on peripheral, marginalized, racialized populations.

You can read it here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/708464

# ? Jun 8, 2020 14:33

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

With Columbus statues in ~the news~ I decided to revisit Hobsbawm�s "Goodbye, Columbus" on the substance of the Columbian Exchange. Was written in 1992 for the Quincentenary.

Recommend 👍

# ? Jun 12, 2020 07:13

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson has an essay in Viewpoint on the ongoing Floyd Rebellion Rebellion to Revolution

Emphasizes the need to maintain revolutionary objectives and reject liberal / Democratic Party framing wherever possible. I like the tenor and analysis on a descriptive level. But I�m not at all sold on his prescriptive call to action (People's Assemblies as a nascent form of Dual Power plus working toward a general strike). To his credit he doesn�t present this as some kind of universal formula, instead embracing multi-tendency diversity

# ? Jun 12, 2020 08:46

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

https://twitter.com/johncolapinto/status/1271591653816635392?s=21

Lol

# ? Jun 15, 2020 05:40

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

American Fascism: It Has Happened Here

Really good post by Sarah Churchill at the New York Review of Books on fascist currents in America. Draws on some of the black Marxist scholars who explicated USA�s fascist character nearly a century ago.

# ? Jun 25, 2020 16:04

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

mission statement for a new magazine:
https://thedriftmag.com/editors-note/

# ? Jun 27, 2020 17:16

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Lol n+1 published an essay about the term �now more than ever� being a hopeless cliche a couple years ago, wonder if it�s used kind of tongue in cheek here

# ? Jun 27, 2020 17:35

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

i like the wendy brown interview in that new mag. her book states of injury is good, and i keep hearing good things about undoing the demos

# ? Jun 27, 2020 18:29

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

This article is over a decade old, but it's still pretty cool. It's a history of when America (and to be fair, lots of other places) developed a health crisis because of massive overuse of a drug that people didn't understand the health risks of: Amphetamine, 1930-1970. There's some meth in there too for good measure.

# ? Jun 30, 2020 00:55

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Right-liberal huckster shithead Yascha Mounk is starting some kind of new media concern. Worth reading this n+1 essay about him, gives a good primer on why I loving hate him so much (beyond the recent specifics like jacking off to the Bolivia coup and promoting Guiad� in VZ, etc).

# ? Jul 3, 2020 04:43

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

robert brenner's take on the recent financial rescue bill and the fed's actions:
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II123/articles/robert-brenner-escalating-plunder

# ? Jul 5, 2020 13:09

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

London Review of Books: Pankaj Mishra on the decline of the Anglo-American world order

Here's a pastebin of the text to get around the paywall: https://pastebin.com/GQ7YzAsK

(on that note, what's a good place to do these text dumps that's more readable?)

# ? Jul 9, 2020 10:58

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

gradenko_2000 posted:

London Review of Books: Pankaj Mishra on the decline of the Anglo-American world order

Here's a pastebin of the text to get around the paywall: https://pastebin.com/GQ7YzAsK

(on that note, what's a good place to do these text dumps that's more readable?)

https://outline.com/R9TqKU

# ? Jul 13, 2020 18:26

Wraith of J.O.I.: Jan 25, 2012

pankaj mishra is so good � loved his review of coates� obama book

his incrimination of the prestige english language media organs and elite universities leading to this insular and calcified anglo centric worldview is right on point

# ? Jul 14, 2020 09:20

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

He had a really good LRB article a year or two ago about human rights discourse, too, specifically about how the Cold War West weaponized human rights by making sure they covered political and social rights but not economic ones, and that's at the root of a lot of our current problematic understandings of the world. Like the difference between "refugees" and "economic migrants" comes down to this specific problem in human rights discourse, that it's legitimate to flee your country and permanently resettle in a richer one if you're about to be killed for your political beliefs or your religion or your race, but not if you're about to die of starvation. Because when it comes down to it, the West only ever adopted human rights discourse as a way to welcome Soviet dissidents while delegitimizing Soviet critiques of capitalism.

# ? Jul 14, 2020 14:23

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Mishra is really excellent. I have returned a couple times to these two by him �

How Colonial Violence Came Home - contextualizes the violence of the First World War as part of a world system of war and destruction led by the imperial powers

Why Do White People Like What I Write? - his sympathetic review of Coates�s book that critiques his work�s neglect of imperialism (and anti-imperialism, if that�s not redundant to point out).

Also interesting to me - he�s apparently something of an autodidact and got much of his intellectual education from devouring the New York Review of Books in his youth.

# ? Jul 14, 2020 14:46

Action Jacktion: Jun 3, 2003

I know most people here are Newsweek readers but if you want a change, today subscriptions to The Jacobin are only $7.89:

https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=EGALITE

# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:09

Finicums Wake: Mar 13, 2017; Can't post for 8 years!

a couple years ago someone in phiz posted a deal to get a 2-for-1 subscription to LRB and (i think?) the NYRB. i deeply regret not buying it. i'm prob not gonna buy another jacobin suub, but if you see any other sweet deals please post them itt

# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:12

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

I actually think that was LRB and the Paris Review.

Good call though I�ll try to get better about posting deals I see. This thread went dormant for a while and I stopped watering it. Thankfully it�s kicked back up :3:

# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:47

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

some useful links

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

outline.com

# ? Jul 15, 2020 13:50

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Action Jacktion posted:

I know most people here are Newsweek readers but if you want a change, today subscriptions to The Jacobin are only $7.89:

https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?code=EGALITE

thanks for this!

# ? Jul 15, 2020 19:04

GalacticAcid: Apr 8, 2013; NEW YORK VALUES

Any n+1 subscribers? I still haven�t received issue 37. I suspect my copy was lost or stolen.

# ? Jul 16, 2020 16:06

Wraith of J.O.I.: Jan 25, 2012

got it earlier this week, working my way through it, just finished a great ~15 page piece on the history of us/iran conflict that i intend to share with friends in the future

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SSJ_naruto_2003: Oct 12, 2012

Is it worth a subscription honestly? There's already endless (lovely) political writing on the internet

# ? Jul 16, 2020 17:26

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