NY Times, August 2, 2020 Why Protest Tactics Spread Like Memes When items like umbrellas and leaf blowers are subverted into objects of resistance, they become very shareable. Video The New York

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By Zeynep Tukfeci, a Marxism list alumnus. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/

Marx and the Communist Enlightenment Marxism is the completion of the Radical Enlightenment projec Enlightenment and the Young Marx For Jonathan Israel, Marx’s status as a Radical Enlightenment

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Call for Abstracts/Papers: tripleC special issue: “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism” Edited by Christian Fuchs Deadline for abstract submission: END OF THIS FRIDAY,

By Keith Gessen, Masha's brother and formidable in his own right. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/_pages/ckdaxd58r0000zsn1nemo64fr.html#

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Far-right Senator cites Sean Wilentz and the other critics of Project 1619 to make case that it teaches kids to "hate

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While many activists and organizers participated, the reality is that this rebellion was not organized by the small revolutionary left, neither by the so-called progressive NGOs. The rebellion was

A FB friend named Shemon Salam is probably the Shemon who states that the theses were sent to him and his co-editor by people from NY. Generally, I look askance at articles, websites, etc. that do not

https://mronline.org/2020/08/03/trade-and-tensions-between-the-u-s-and-china/ Trade and tensions between the U.S. and China Posted Aug 03, 2020 by Vijay Prashad Empire , Financialization ,

Tomorrow, a digitally restored version of the 1995 “Shanghai Triad” will be available on Virtual Cinema. For a $10 rental, you get a chance to see a film directed by Zhang Yimou, widely regarded

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i just got a heads up from groups.io, the new marxmail server: Note: groups.io will be down for maintenance this evening, starting at 11pm Pacific Time (6am Tuesday 8/3/2020 UTC), for up to two

NY Times, August 3, 2020 These Remarks Might Get a Police Chief Fired. Not in New York. The police commissioner’s pointed criticism — and the fact that he still has his job — speaks to the

https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/rick-perlstein-reaganland-book-review.html This brings to mind Alex Cockburn's review of Perlstein's earlier book NIXONLAND in New Left Review 53, Sept-Oct 2008: The