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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 ~
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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. 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 |
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Man Musk posted:The Economist had an interesting piece on the future of the GOP, which I have pasted below for your reading pleasure: If 2016 wasn't the last presidential election, then 2020 definitely seems like it would be, at least in any form we'd recognize.
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# ? May 4, 2020 05:02 |
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https://twitter.com/henrykrinkie/status/1258551865626652672?s=21 👍
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# ? May 8, 2020 04:14 |
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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)
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# ? May 9, 2020 01:32 |
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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
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# ? May 13, 2020 21:36 |
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i finally read the geoff mann essay. it's good
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# ? May 14, 2020 01:01 |
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Nikil Saval of n+1 won his primary election yesterday
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# ? Jun 3, 2020 15:03 |
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That’s a money hookup, thank you
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# ? Jun 4, 2020 21:11 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 16:52 |
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GalacticAcid posted:Asad Haider in Viewpoint - No Justice, No Peace Really good, thanks. I'll second the recommendation for any lurkers.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 17:20 |
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Well, CSPAM can stop perpetually arguing about it: The Myth of the Kindly General Lee It's the Atlantic but Adam Serwer
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 21:41 |
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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..?
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 22:15 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:05 |
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Ahhh word I missed that. Carry on.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:51 |
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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. quote:Abstract: 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
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# ? Jun 8, 2020 14:33 |
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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 👍
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# ? Jun 12, 2020 07:13 |
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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
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# ? Jun 12, 2020 08:46 |
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https://twitter.com/johncolapinto/status/1271591653816635392?s=21 Lol
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# ? Jun 15, 2020 05:40 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 25, 2020 16:04 |
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mission statement for a new magazine: https://thedriftmag.com/editors-note/
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 17:16 |
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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
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 17:35 |
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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
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# ? Jun 27, 2020 18:29 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 30, 2020 00:55 |
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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 Guiadó in VZ, etc).
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# ? Jul 3, 2020 04:43 |
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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
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 13:09 |
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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?)
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# ? Jul 9, 2020 10:58 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:London Review of Books: Pankaj Mishra on the decline of the Anglo-American world order https://outline.com/R9TqKU
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# ? Jul 13, 2020 18:26 |
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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
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# ? Jul 14, 2020 09:20 |
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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.
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# ? Jul 14, 2020 14:23 |
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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.
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# ? Jul 14, 2020 14:46 |
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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
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:09 |
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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
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:12 |
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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
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 03:47 |
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some useful links https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome outline.com
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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: thanks for this!
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# ? Jul 15, 2020 19:04 |
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Any n+1 subscribers? I still haven’t received issue 37. I suspect my copy was lost or stolen.
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# ? Jul 16, 2020 16:06 |
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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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Is it worth a subscription honestly? There's already endless (lovely) political writing on the internet
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