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just read dylan riley's 'what is trump' (published in new left review)* and thought it was insigthtful. alough the main point is to call into question the constantly appearing claims that yrump's a fascist, or atleast defuse most of the conclusions one might draw from that comparison, i liked how it specified exactly why trump's approach to politics is such disaster even when excluding his personal qualities/capabilitis/bqhatever.quote:The combination of a charismatic leader ruling in patrimonial fashion over a legal-rational bureaucratic state, in a political system that is largely oligarchic, within its democratic forms, is constitutively—and manifoldly—contradictory. Trump’s incoherence as a ruler is thus not just, though also, a temperamental failing. It is a structural effect of the kind of figure he cuts, presiding over the kind of political-cultural order that is postmodern America. The extreme form of hybridity he embodies suggests that it is futile to assign to him any general classification like fascism, authoritarianism or populism, even though he may exhibit traits of at least the third, if not the second—as well as nationalism, racism and sexism. Flukey in origin, this form of rule is too unstable a compound to have much staying power. There is no Trumpian ideology or ‘cause’ to which loyalists might commit themselves when he leaves office. After all, the President’s own political background is firmly rooted in the New York Democratic machine. * https://newleftreview.org/II/114/dylan-riley-what-is-trump
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can anyone chime in on the FT weekend print subscription? considering my budget i have two options: i can buy a daily online subscription or i can buy the weekend print subscription (for a little less). idk if i'd take full advantage of the online subscription, checking FT every day and all. also, the weekend edition is cheaper, and since it's in print i'd even have the opportunity of reading it outside of my room, without having to stare at a screen, etc. it seems like the weekend edition comes with a bunch of other bullshit that i don't care about. but, if it reliably complies the major stories featured in the daily, i think i'd go with that. plz help
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this mike davis article about the roni is good, but bleak https://newleftreview.org/issues/II122/articles/mike-davis-in-a-plague-year
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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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mission statement for a new magazine: https://thedriftmag.com/editors-note/
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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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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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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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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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adam tooze on sino-american relations https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n15/adam-tooze/whose-century
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i'd appreciate it whenever, thanks
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Jul 26, 2020 03:24
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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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Aug 22, 2020 06:52
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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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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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new left review has a blog now https://newleftreview.org/sidecar
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Nebakenezzer posted:Does this thread do requests? I'm looking for articles or relevant book reviews on partisanship, particularly blind partisanship. the book democracy for realists sort of covers this stuff. check out summaries or reviews to see if it sounds good to you, imo chapters 8 and 9 are titled "The Very Basis of Reasons: Groups, Social Identities, and Political Psychology" and "Partisan Hearts and Spleens: Social Identities and Political Change," respectively there's a bunch of other poo poo in the book, but it's written by two political scientists so it'll at least point you to some of the other work on the topic edit: i agree with the other posters criticizing 'partisanship' as a useful concept in explaining or understanding us politics. voters' beliefs and actions aren't really what drive the political process, so examining one aspect of voter psychology or political preference formation or whatever isn't going to be super revealing Finicums Wake has issued a correction as of 08:55 on Jan 11, 2021 |
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mike davis on the storming of the capitol, intra-party republican conflict among elites, etc https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/riot-on-the-hill
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StashAugustine posted:I got Adam Tooze's Crashed for Christmas; does anyone have comments on it or good reviews about it?
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Jan 11, 2021 08:57
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this has some of the first information i've been able to find on the anti-mask/anti-shutdown protestors' class locations https://bostonreview.net/politics/william-callison-quinn-slobodian-coronapolitics-reichstag-capitol
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idk where else to post this, but the bulletin of atomic scientists are always an interesting read. the following will warning will almost certainly go unheeded by our dipshit 'liberal internationalists' employed by the biden admin and as commentators in the mainstream press https://thebulletin.org/2021/01/my-advice-to-president-elect-biden-break-the-dangerous-pattern-of-nuclear-competition-with-russia/
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Jan 21, 2021 19:47
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a book review of The Hitler Conspiracies by Richard Evans https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/01/14/hitler-conspiracies-antarctica/
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unlike the usual poo poo i link itt, this isn't from some marxist journal or w/e. but it's a surprisingly frank long-form article about how power actually operates in US politics, so i feel like people who read this thread might find it interesting as well https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
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HCN looks legit, thanks for the links
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