Join us for a conversation with “Know Your Enemy” co-hosts @mattsitman.bsky.social and @samadlerbell.bsky.social and “Revolutions” host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about right-wing narratives and rhetoric around decline, lost greatness, and everything in between.
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The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned system of organizational control over UFW members.
Progressives need to ground international commitments to democratic accountability at home and engage with social movements abroad. Few political figures have articulated this as clearly as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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A fascinating listen! It was interesting to learn about the intra-movement political rifts. And the final ten minutes offer salient rejoinders to the common zionist criticisms of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book. Can't wait to read it. @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
My piece on @aoc.bsky.social and foreign policy for @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Incredible & important episode about the Jewish Bund & their much forgotten (mostly due to their hugely prescient criticism of Zionism) history in Eastern Europe up to WWII.
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After you've admired the photo that Trump posted, depicting himself as Jesus, read @sarahjones.bsky.social excellent & entertaining piece on the master of that cartoonish Christo-fascist aesthetic, Thomas Kinkade. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Such a powerful episode @dissentmag.bsky.social entmag.bsky.social Know Your Enemy with @mollycrabapple.bsky.social sky.social. It will enrage & encourage anyone with a heart that a different world was and still is possible. It also has this lovely anecdote in it:
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If you listened to the latest Know Your Enemy episode you will have learned that there is going to be a live Dissent Magazine / KYE / Mike Duncan's Revolutions crossover event on May 14th at 7pm in New. York. City. Tickets are on sale now! dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-m...
“Kerala shows that if people are protected from risk and uncertainty by a government that provides access to food, housing, a decent education, and basic healthcare, they will be motivated to take care of many other problems.”
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Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos acknowledged what elites have long denied: that U.S. hegemony’s “pleasant fiction” now no longer functions. Our essay of the week dissects the downfall of the liberal international order.
By @nilsgilman.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social
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Join us for a conversation with “Know Your Enemy” co-hosts @mattsitman.bsky.social and @samadlerbell.bsky.social and “Revolutions” host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about right-wing narratives and rhetoric around decline, lost greatness, and everything in between.
www.eventbrite.com/e/decline-an...
India is one of the most unequal countries on earth, and income inequality has consistently been worsening over the last two decades. So how did one state segregated by caste, class, and religion become an egalitarian community?
Sarah Jaffe interviewing Kathleen Weeks in Dissent last week: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Screams: "It’s shocking how unschooled we are in thinking at the level of social structures."
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New @dissentmag.bsky.social piece by Farid Masrour on why Trump's actions in Iran are unlikely to be produce "democratization", even if the present regime is unpopular dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
The war with Iran will not produce a freer or more democratic country.
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TEXT: It’s important not to feel completely defeated when you lose a particular battle, because there are going to be many battles. It’s important to put politics on a longer timeframe and still take pleasure in being part of it. There’s always this pragmatic assumption: “If we lose, people will go home and be disappointed.” How do we narrate what it means to commit to fights that won’t be won in our generation? We don’t have the vocabulary to explain what that means.
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I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family
"I like the term archive...because it’s an alternative to the “canon.” So I’m putting my texts by Shulamith Firestone, Angela Davis, and Donna Haraway in an archive. That means I want to read them together....It changes how you read texts when you put them together, & I find that really generative."
New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book.
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“In the first Cold War, the struggle was over the relationship between state and society. Today, it is over the metabolic basis of the economy: whether to remain a petrostate or move toward becoming an electrostate.” My latest:
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New online: @nilsgilman.bsky.social on how the “middle powers” can chart a third way between authoritarian superpowers in Washington and Beijing.
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"The real scandal of the Epstein saga is not that a billionaire cabal runs the world. It’s that there is a billionaire class. The moral of the Epstein files is that nobody should be that rich" dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
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