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gradenko_2000 posted:London Review of Books: Pankaj Mishra on the decline of the Anglo-American world order Finally got around to this. Superb, cannot recommend it highly enough
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gonna pick up an n+1 digital subscription since it's only $4.50 a month. this will be my first time subscribing to them, so i'm entirely unfamiliar with their backlog. if anyone could post some of their favorite articles, beyond what's in the OP, or put together a 'best of' list or whatever, i'd appreciate it
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while it's not explicitly political, i liked the following article and think some of you would too. it's primarily about drinking culture, and a PMC professor's struggles to fit in to the de-industrializing poo poo town where he landed a professorship. but the author's description of turning their home into a virtual republic of letters, thru magazine subscriptions or whatever, as a way to escape their dreary surroundings rang true to me, even if i scoffed at their choice of reading (new york times and economist lol) https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/drinking-alone
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Rampart: The Abolitionist Road to Socialism Monthly Review: Emancipation and science: Ernest Mandel 25 years later EDIT: Had never heard of Ernest Mandel before, but on the strength of that profile I've added a couple of his books to my reading list. The Rampart piece I thought had a good intersection breakdown of the relationship between racism, capitalism, and the carceral state. this was good, thanks for sharing gradenko_2000 has issued a correction as of 10:21 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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Finicums Wake posted:while it's not explicitly political, i liked the following article and think some of you would too. Hey his reading list did include n+1, heavily recommended by this thread. A good read that resonated with me, although I'm not exactly sure why. Thanks for posting.
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adam tooze on sino-american relations https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century
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Finicums Wake posted:gonna pick up an n+1 digital subscription since it's only $4.50 a month. I will do this for you sometime soon. However this weekend I have reserved for drinking beer and watching baseball lol
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i'd appreciate it whenever, thanks
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Finicums Wake posted:adam tooze on sino-american relations EDIT: Outline link so I don't lose it: https://outline.com/D3YpRY I did want to pick out one specific thing about this article that I twigged on: quote:Donald Trump’s unexpected election victory changed the debate by putting the spotlight back on the US. The Trump presidency is a Rorschach blot onto which analysts project their diagnosis of a crisis that is as much American as Sino-American. Self-critical American liberals see the Trump presidency as the result of the derailment of US globalisation policy, above all in relation to China: blue-collar resentment, stoked by unbalanced trade, put Trump in office. Meanwhile, Trump and his team put the blame for the China crisis on their predecessors in the Obama, Bush and Clinton administrations. For hawks, such as the US trade representative Robert Lighthizer and Trump’s favourite economic adviser, Peter Navarro, the question is why the effort to enrol China in the world economy was undertaken in the first place, and who benefited from an experiment that has gone so badly wrong. The other day I was looking at the 2004 Democratic party platform and remembered seeing this: quote:We will stand up for American workers and consumers by building on President Clinton's progress in including enforceable, internationally recognized labor and environmental standards in trade agreements. We will aggressively enforce our trade agreements with a real plan that includes a complete review of all existing agreements; immediate investigation into China's workers' rights abuses and currency manipulation; increased funding for efforts to protect workers' rights and stop child labor abuse; new reforms to protect the innovations of high-tech companies; and vigorous enforcement of U.S. trade laws. We will use all the tools we have to create new opportunities for American workers, farmers, and businesses, and break down barriers in key export markets, like the Japanese auto market and the Chinese high-technology market. We will effectively enforce our trade laws protecting against dumping, illegal subsidies, and import surges that threaten American jobs. Now, the correct criticism of Trump is that he's too dumb to understand what a trade deficit is, or what currency manipulation is, and whatever he's been doing with/to China isn't going to resolve these issues, but it bears noting that "we have a bad trade deficit with China" or that "China is engaging in currency manipulation (to the detriment of the US)" is not a specifically Trumpian idea. As you can see here, even the Democrats believed it was happening and wanted to do something about it!
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on 'the middle class' https://newleftreview.org/issues/II124/articles/goran-therborn-dreams-and-nightmares-of-the-world-s-middle-classes
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Finicums Wake posted:adam tooze on sino-american relations Wow, an actual intelligent discussion of these issues. (Not surprising ITT, but I'm usually exposed to this stuff through the MSM thread) quote:In 1949, ‘Who lost China?’ was the question that tortured the American political establishment. Seventy years later, the question that hangs in the air is how and why America’s elite lost interest in their own country. 
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https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/10/chris-hedges-americas-death-march/Chris Hedges posted:The social inequality that characterizes all states and civilizations seized by a tiny and corrupt cabal — in our case corporate — leads to an inchoate desire by huge segments of the population to destroy. The ethnic nationalists Slobodan Milošević, Franjo Tudjman, Radovan Karadžić and Alija Izetbegović in the former Yugoslavia assumed power in a similar period of economic chaos and political stagnation. Yugoslavs by 1991 were suffering from widespread unemployment and had seen their real incomes reduced by half from what they had been a generation before. These nationalist demagogues sanctified their followers as righteous victims stalked by an array of elusive enemies. They spoke in the language of vengeance and violence, leading, as it always does, to actual violence. They trafficked in historical myth, deifying the past exploits of their race or ethnicity in a perverse kind of ancestor worship, a mechanism to give to those who suffered from anomie, who had lost their identity, dignity and self-worth, a new, glorious identity as part of a master race. When I walked through Montgomery, Alabama, a city where half of the population is African-American, with the civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson a few years ago, he pointed out the numerous Confederate memorials, noting that most had been put up in the last decade. “This,” I told him, “is exactly what happened in Yugoslavia.”
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Yesh posted:Which writer or article said that a civil war was in effect when people were dying en masse and didn't need to involve guns or violence? Cuz America is in a civil war Ayin posted:It was an article about Russia in the 90's -- The Dying Russians
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The dying Russians article was excellent. Just came across this: An Atlantic Article on Covid, reporting on the discovery that covid-19 infections closely follow the Pareto principle. The Pareto principle is a natural statistical distribution. Let's say you owned a business either for a long time or one that had lots of customers. If you looked at the data, you'd find that 80% of your revenue came from 20% of your customers. Covid-19 appears similar, and that's good news and bad news. Good news is that all the social distancing/mask wearing stuff works, and the disease may be less infectious than feared. The bad news is that in good spreading conditions, one infection can spread astonishingly fast. This makes predicting spread of the virus much more difficult, since unlike the flu, (to paraphrase) covid 19 is stochastic as opposed to deterministic in the statistical sense.
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Rest in peace https://twitter.com/nplusonemag/status/1321121258721955841?s=21
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long but good article from perry anderson about UK politics, framed as a review and assessment of the NLR's line on UK politics throughout its existence https://newleftreview.org/issues/II125/articles/perry-anderson-ukania-perpetua
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Glenn Greenwald just resigned from Intercept. He said they were censoring him or whatever but does anyone have the tea
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Can anyone recommend a good book or article about eh horribleness of the 2016 election? (Aside from What Happened, of course, since we've all read that already.)
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Idk. What aspect of the election
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congrats to n+1 https://twitter.com/bookforum/status/1324030432501968899?s=21
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Pretty cool, good for him
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GalacticAcid posted:Idk. What aspect of the election General stuff I guess: stupid things done by Democrats, evil things done by Republicans, media bias. I'm not a masochist, seriously.
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https://thelandmag.com/the-land-interview-mike-davis-jeff-weiss/ an interview with Marxist historian Mike Davis, whose "Late Victorian Holocausts" I've been reading lately, which is why this article was on my radar
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While looking for something else, I came across this NY review of books article on Ivan Ilyin, philosopher of Russian fascism. Nebakenezzer posted:I don't have a bead on who Putin is aside from an increasingly sloppy megalomaniac, so seeing him recycle an Orthodox Russian philosopher that was super into Hegel, taught by the originator of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, became ideological buds with friggin' Lenin after the revolution, endorsed a form of Christianity that said "truth is a lie, and God is a feeble fuckup" then went fascist, (first Italian, later Nazi) and then had the good sense to move to Switzerland before the war started, and who throughout WW2 was cheering on the Germans as they attacked the USSR, and if anything became even more extreme after world war two is, ah, interesting. Plinkey posted:I'd like to know more...in posts not books, i have too many books to read already Nebakenezzer posted:OK, so Ivan Ilyin, this intellectual managed to combine fascist-style mystic Russian nationalism, fascist hostility to law and rational government, some assumptions that make communists nod in agreement, and a incredibly bizarre religious take. Here is a fascist who never really understood the joke of "there being no truth, and that is a Truth." The cash value of this insanity is that the dude believed "the ends justify any means" and "human life is as worthless as truth" (and that is a truth.) I've no idea how much Putin and co actually believe in this poo poo, but if you want to justify government-less authoritarianism combined with mythical nationalism and justification to do literally whatever you want , his thinking is useful, right down to his sex anxiety. His essays have been given to officials, and Putin has quotes him frequently in speeches. If you think fascism is an aesthetic political movement, then Ilyin appears to be a major style influence in the current government.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://thelandmag.com/the-land-interview-mike-davis-jeff-weiss/ I enjoyed this, thanks for posting it.
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I suppose this is the best place to ask uhhh, so, if I wanted to try submissions, are there any decent places to go for? I do have a few years of writing and did a few pieces that were considered "quite good" here in Brazil during the 2014 world cup; a friend from the USA strongly encouraged me to try submitting my recent stuff for a global audience, since I have been writing in English and is more internationalist-oriented so far I got only Jacobin and Baffler, any other ideas? (My French isn't good enough to try for Libération lol)
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fyi https://twitter.com/nplusonemag/status/1327711148955770880?s=21
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dead gay comedy forums posted:I suppose this is the best place to ask What sort of topics do you plan on covering? I know nothing about submission process but n+1 has published a number of brazil-focused essays through the years, off the top of my head on memorial of the dictatorship & on the refugee situation / on the border with VZ. They also post more articles online than in print so that might be a way in. New Left Review has a very international focus and does accept submissions though I imagine they’re extremely selective. The LRB accepts submissions as well.
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So, have you ever wondered how much Data Law Enforcement can access via your smartphone without a warrent? This article is a deep dive into that. Spoiler alert, it is all of your data, and it is all the law enforcement organizations, from the FBI to the country sheriff, as they share apps and hardware, and there's no legal oversight for this at all, because of course smartphones only became universal in the US in the last decade. If you are reading these words on a smartphone and don't know this stuff, you should read this.
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https://twitter.com/richard__beck/status/1331015695598022657?s=21 Intrigued by this, beck’s essays are excellent
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mike davis on 2020 https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii126/articles/mike-davis-trench-warfare NLRB seems very good, might buy a subscription from them this christmas
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Very sad, he was quite young https://twitter.com/nplusonemag/status/1337141053909065728?s=21
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Could be interesting https://twitter.com/prwc_info/status/1336622620670914562?s=21
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Does anyone here get the Monthly Review? I've liked quite a few of their online articles, and the books they've published.
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I do. It’s always dense, not the most accessible, but I find it worthwhile and I enjoy the breadth of topics and rigorous anti-imperialism
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new left review has a blog now https://newleftreview.org/sidecar
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I got Adam Tooze's Crashed for Christmas; does anyone have comments on it or good reviews about it?
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Does this thread do requests? I'm looking for articles or relevant book reviews on partisanship, particularly blind partisanship.
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