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

"For some, and especially for those in the millennial generation, the Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan started a process of reflection on what the neoliberal era had delivered. Disappointment would be an understatement: the complete wreckage of economic, social, and political life would be more accurate. In each of these arenas, looking at the outcomes that neoliberalism delivered increasingly called into question the worldview itself."

https://newrepublic.com/article/155970/collapse-neoliberalism

#video

This video is highly advised for political organizers, in particular from the point the video starts (31:32) 'till 35:30. Those are some invaluable tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XmOe-xz3E&feature=youtu.be&t=1892

Happy New Year everybody!

"Unfortunately, if all you’ve read are mainstream news outlets, and not the conservatives themselves, it’s almost impossible to understand just how deranged the entire movement has become."

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/beyond-compromise/

#books

"Wobblies In Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World during the World War I Era", by Eric Chester

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/wobblies-past-and-present/

"Marx and Social Justice: Ethics and Natural Law in the Critique of Political Economy", by George E. McCarthy

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/17579_marx-and-social-justice-ethics-and-natural-law-in-the-critique-of-political-economy-by-george-e-mccarthy-reviewed-by-xuanpu-zhuang

"Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor", by Steven Greenhouse
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/sticking-with-the-union/

"Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, In the Streets, and on the Air", by Michael Steven Smith

https://portside.org/2019-04-18/lawyers-left-courts-streets-and-air

#video

Everything wrong with what Peterson said on Marx and Marxism in the debate against Zizek. This whole channel is extremely interesting, especially if you want to learn about post-modern philosophy

https://youtu.be/V2hhrUHSD6o

"Commonly held beliefs don’t develop in a vacuum. Trans people have never had control over their own narrative, in science or in media. That has started to change recently, but by and large, cis people still hold the power to frame trans lives for the masses. Maintaining that power to define trans lives is what ultimately drives anti-trans activists, not only in their online presence but in the courts and more broadly."

https://newrepublic.com/article/156104/biology-becomes-cover-anti-trans-bigotry