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 Times

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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 figure

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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, AUGUST

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 America". https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/07/30/sen_cotton_the_1619_p

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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 inf

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 , Imperialism

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 as Ch

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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 mayor’s fra

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