Doctorow has coined some widely-used concepts, but his arguments have always felt elusively shallow and anemic to me, and this really snaps the reason into focus: It's because they're always and entirely focused on the consumer.

Who gave you flack? I'll fight them 😤

this is absolutely right. i got flack for not going into climate policy in depth in Endgame, but we have a degenerate economic system that makes rational government all but impossible and in fact is destroying government as we knew it. the very idea of ‘rational policy’ is a non sequitur

Issue 2 is in the mail! Be on the lookout for your copy!

Endnotes

The new @endnotesjournal.bsky.social website looks fantastic. In particular I love the footnotes now appearing on the side of the screen. Reading on the site itself is better than ever.

www.endnotes.org.uk

striking baristas 🤝 union drivers

A thousand words at a time

Forthcoming F&F Français translation will feature bonus content (new foreword)

U.S. President Barack Obama revealed possible plans to privately perform "Gangnam Style" for his spouse Michelle Obama.[141][142][143][144]

still no updates here

What's his reasoning for that?

Running a low-latency platform for instant comms capable of carrying millions of concurrent audio/video calls requires a pre-built, planet-spanning network of compute, storage and edge presence that requires constant maintenance, significant electricity and persistent attention and monitoring. 4/

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

It's like they're trying to turn her into a 21st century Lenin by the time she's middle aged. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

utah police wisely choosing not to show the bullet casing that says ‘if you read this you are gay’ bc they know it would instantly turn the country gay

its funny to be ruled by internet-brained idiots like this, when anyone with a passing familiarity of this internet political moment knew instinctively this was going to be an incoherent brain rotted gamer white boy who sees politics and violence as entertainment

A new essay by Phil Neel laying out the various levels and forms of revolutionary organization, the function limits of "sigils" and tactical leadership, and the two kinds of "invariance" in communist struggle.

illwill.com/theory-of-th...

Nuova pubblicazione Porfido Edizioni:

| LA FORESTA & LA FABBRICA |
Contributi ad una fantascienza del comunismo

[2025, 128p.]

Phil A. Neel & Nick Chavez @dfmanufracture.bsky.social

via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social

porfidotorino.it/2025/02/01/l...

Marx haters be like "Marx was very wrong because [something that Kautsky or Stalin said], it's obvious that actually [something Marx said extensively]"

"new cultures" dawg you're literally home! Don't deny your origins! You can't ever run away.

now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

Wonder if any Chinese person has heard a Doechii song and gone "who is this rapper?" and when someone tells them they mishear it as 豆豉 (dòuchǐ), leaving them very impressed that the song was made by fermented soybeans

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"In a sense, Mae Sot is an extension of that little sandbank, where the concept of 'nationality' is unsettled. It’s on the Thai side of the border, but it feels more like a Burmese city."

-Wu Qin, in her dispatch on the Myanmar Civil War featured in Heatwave Issue 1

Maybe a closer look reveals that the cyclical and the secular are part of the same dysfunction. The crisis portended by new Gaga was always just underneath the surface.

I cannot stress enough how clever and fun this essay is

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Two of our friends from Wollongong share their thoughts and experiences from the blockade of Bisalloy Steel. Through a clever set of tactics, picketers have disrupted over 100 operation hours at this veritable merchant of death supplying the IDF.

Lol, pretty much. From BBC—

Great piece by Chicago ILC member @jamiemerchant.bsky.social about Trump's tariffs and class war. Give it a read!