Happy Kwanzaa, comrades! Kwanzaa is a holiday that was created in America (by African Americans) to celebrate black culture and heritage.

A review on Richard Seymour's "The Twittering Machine", by Oliver Eagleton #books

https://newleftreview.org/issues/II120/articles/mind-forged-manacles

"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/

"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/

"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

"Capitalism's history is oscillations between competition and monopoly, each causing the other. Capitalism is the problem, not its oscillating forms."

#video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjG8av4WU4

“History has not yet given us a successful experience of the democratic road to socialism,” he wrote. “What it has provided—and that is not insignificant—is some negative examples to avoid and some mistakes upon which to reflect. . . . But one thing is certain: socialism will be democratic or it will not be at all.”

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nicos-poulantzas-philosopher-of-democratic-socialism

Democratic Left - Winter 2019

"Psychoanalysis has always prized authenticity, introspection, and deep contact. It insists that emotional cruelty and trauma are as real as physical pain, that the truth matters, and that the deeper truths matter the most. It offers a serious but imaginative method that values curiosity and a historical sensibility, pushing against the forces that keep us from seeing what is hidden in plain sight. In a retrograde moment like ours, the analytic ethic provides a strong source of resistance."

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-return-of-psychoanalysis

"What can we all do? Organize, of course, as so many on the global feminist, antiracist, anti-neoliberal left are now doing. But also, expose the cruelty at the heart of neoliberalism, and build on the social solidarity she worked so hard to discredit and destroy. Reject Ayn Rand. After all, she rejects you"

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/ayn-rand-and-the-cruel-heart-of-neoliberalism