joshua clover rip what a loss

please no more with "cycles of struggle" this is not a helpful concept

Palestine: People or Class? | The Brooklyn Rail In the first part of this interview, Emilio Minassian spoke about the integration of Israel/Palestine into global capitalism and the social composition of Palestine. Part two deals with the implicatio...

disgusting. leftcoms are platypus all the way down brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fiel...

now marxists can finally and properly theorize imperialism. what a breakthrough

do they still read books at ecole normale superieure?

Evanescent Value: A Brief Update on Capital • Ill Will Temps critiques on the revolution of capital and the obsolescence of the labor theory of value.

made it through exactly two paragraphs before i burst out laughing

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Rich People Are Firing a Cash Cannon at the US Economy—But at What Cost? Industries get recalibrated, economic signals get crossed and the social fabric begins to fray.

mike davis called this "overconsumption"

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and mike davis who is early 2000s was writing about surplus population in relation to 19th and 20th century anticolonial struggles as well as hamas and hezbollah

ruy mauro marini's concepts around surplus population are far richer in theoretical and historical elaboration than the political marxist brain rot inherited by endnotes

Cedric robinson: it may not be the case that we have seen "the full potential of nationalism"

phil neel here using concepts drawn from dependency theory (sub-imperialism) to fairly cogently makes the case for international hierarchy of states and at the same time, in the SAME interview, he dismisses imperialism as analytic framework. pure western chauvinism

here's mike davis on geography

the "new and surprising geographies of struggle" are not dissimilar to the interest of "old" third worldism which they now consider to be "campist"

The American Economy: Crisis and Policy - Paul Mattick

paul mattick jrs full scale assault on antiimperialist politics in recent issues of brooklyn rail is pathological. at least senior mattick managed to incorporate imperialism in his theory during the Vietnam war libcom.org/article/amer...

The Parasite (For Buffy) YouTube video by Eugene McDaniels - Topic

so good

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foucault is fundamentally a useful idiot and a vanishing mediator

james c scott, a significant influence on us anarchism, is the exact point where the new philosophers and the french intellectual reaction of the 70s and freddy perlman meet. all the more reason anti-state anarchists should take a closer look at the the anti-statism of pascal bruckner and his cohort

the real continuing appeal of nationalism

unlike freddy perlman who more or less accuses sakai of being hitler

A critique of Western Maoism: 18 Points Haphazard musings: 18 points which will be gone into in more detail.

unlike post-situ or pro-situ anarchists from 80s onward that made it impossible to conceive of "maoism", this situationist critique is actually generative even if i have many disagreements

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sergio bologna in "class composition and the theory of the party at the origins of the workers' council movement" sounds exactly like how ultras talked about the "historical party" and "party as articulator" during the 2020 uprising

not sure if anyone picks up on mike davis "overconsumption" thesis he pushed in the 80s. seems even more relevant in relation to extremely unhinged centrality of cyprto to trump's resurgence

The disgusting western chauvinist mod policy update is here, for those who are interested. Not sure why abolition media didn't link to it but they should have.

is it any wonder that endnotes and co end up where they are when they find inspiration from italian theories of Gemeinwesen that interpret black revolts in american cities as "return to primal forest". this is the heart of their anti-politics, or "non-movements"

mike davis understood the disastrous consequences of the white left adandoning and/or demoting black liberation struggles. something equivalent also manifested itself in france where gauchistes abandoned maoism

Mike Davis, The Political Economy of Late-Imperial America, NLR I/143, January–February 1984 Conventional definitions of American post-war ‘hegemony’ have focused on the sheer preponderance of economic and military power concerted through an atomic-military monopoly, monetary sovereignty, ove...

newleftreview.org/issues/i143/... actually pretty good

sunil khilnani's arguing revolution is a primo book. especially that last chapter on francios furet 👌

it's curious that sebald left germany between 1965-1975 and never once mentions what happens in that period. it's curious

wg sebald, levinas, heidegger and hp lovecraft should all be read together

Review: ‘Revolution in the Air’ by Max Elbaum - Loren Goldner Loren Goldner reviews Max Elbaum's 'Revolution in the Air', and in the process critically examines Maoist and Third Worldist politics.

loren goldner's quite nasty jeremaid against elbaum's book has the virtue providing a gloss of the terms under which anti-stalinist libertarian current developed in the 70s. particularly the introduction of debord and camatte to the us.

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