The Left
I suppose it's fairly well-known that I do not have the reflexive obsession with nonviolence in politics that dominates the minds of American liberals. Violence is usually a bad idea.
There's a long history of leftists believing their workers should have no union rights because their job is to exploit themselves for the cause of revolution. This goes back to.
Greg Sargent has a good interview with Mike Konczal about the latter's new book (I interviewed him for the LGM podcast as well). I thought this tidbit was especially important:.
So much of our discourse about the left today is twisted by our focus on a few online figures, Jacobin, the Chapo cokeheads, and a few other sources. This is.
Max Weber, 1864-1920 tl;dr: The New Yorker ran a piece by Corey Robin that elaborated a rather idiosyncratic reading of Max Weber, one of the canonical thinkers of western social.
That the police are nightmarish in this nation is a huge understatement. We hardly need to explain it at this point. Calls to defund or abolish the policy are morally.
I really appreciated this Politico interview with Sean McElwee on how the left needs to be thinking about electoral politics. McElwee, who co-founded Data for Progress, came into the spotlight.
One thought I've had a lot over the last couple of years is that the real power of the rejuvenated left will truly be determined in the next recession, not.