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Snipers in the Kitchen: State Theory and Latin America’s Left Cycle
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/snipers-in-the-kitchen
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/snipers-in-the-kitchen
New Left Review
Juan Carlos Monedero, Snipers in the Kitchen, NLR 120, November–December 2019
Amid ongoing political turbulence in Latin America, Juan Carlos Monedero mobilizes the resources of state theory, from Gramsci to Poulantzas, to provide a comparative critical analysis of the cycle of left governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina…
"The story of American politics over the past decade is that of a political party on the cusp of enduring power and world-historical social reform, and how these once imaginable outcomes were methodically squandered."
https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency
https://newrepublic.com/article/156066/decade-liberal-delusion-failure-obama-presidency
The New Republic
A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure
It was the death of hope by a thousand tiny technocratic "nudges."
From major, statewide legislative victories and tax-code changes to preliminary community meetings and discussions with local politicians, it is clear that 2019 has paved the way for replacing our current broken economic system with a new, democratic economy that operates on principles of racial, social, and economic justice.
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/major-advances-2019-toward-more-democratic-economy
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/major-advances-2019-toward-more-democratic-economy
TheNextSystem.org
Major advances in 2019 toward a more democratic economy
This past year, state and municipal lawmakers teamed up with community organizations to fight for—and win—a wide variety of policies and initiatives that will help foster a more democratic economy.
A review on Richard Seymour's "The Twittering Machine", by Oliver Eagleton #books
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles
New Left Review
Oliver Eagleton, Mind-Forged Manacles?, NLR 120, November–December 2019
Oliver Eagleton on Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine. A Marxian-Freudian polemic against social media, seen as irredeemably hostile to progressive politics.
"The confederation becomes the umbrella democratic counter-institution that joins the forces of the multitude of democratic assemblies by pooling resources and knowledge, engaging in shared struggles, emboldening new ones, and creating a formidable dual power that could constitute the tipping point for a new democratic and egalitarian society."
https://roarmag.org/magazine/confederation-commune-of-communes/
https://roarmag.org/magazine/confederation-commune-of-communes/
ROAR Magazine
The Confederation as the Commune of Communes
Confederalism as a revolutionary strategy provides us with the means to build and organize a radically democratic and egalitarian society at scale.
"Unions controlled by the rank-and-file can serve as a dual power bridgehead towards the democratization of cities, states and capital."
https://roarmag.org/magazine/municipalist-syndicalism-from-the-workplace-to-the-community/
https://roarmag.org/magazine/municipalist-syndicalism-from-the-workplace-to-the-community/
ROAR Magazine
Municipalist Syndicalism: From the Workplace to the Community
Unions controlled by the rank-and-file can serve as a dual power bridgehead towards the democratization of cities, states and capital.
"This is the essence of capitalism kitsch: to ignore all evidence, tell comforting stories about the past, and encourage the kind of collective amnesia that nourishes the delusion of a better tomorrow. A happy past means a happy future—and we used to have it so good! But no, we never had it good: not then, and certainly not now."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/jet-age-capitalism-redux-timms
https://thebaffler.com/latest/jet-age-capitalism-redux-timms
The Baffler
Jet Age Capitalism Redux | Aaron Timms
Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal looks less like a projection of capitalism’s kinetic future than a chained bird unable to get off the ground.