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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoJoe Biden’s Parting Gift to America Will be Christian Fascism2024-03-22T00:46:41+00:00
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/joe-bidens-parting-gift-to-america
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https://theconversation.com/i-watched-hungarys-democracy-dissolve-into-authoritarianism-as-a-member-of-parliament-and-i-see-troubling-parallels-in-trumpism-and-its-appeal-to-workers-224930
robertogrecogáborscheiring 2024 viktororbán donaldtrump workingclass democracts democracy authoritarianism elections liberalism liberaldemocrats economics disaffection nationalism rightwing politics migration immigration hungary europe labor us france germany stagnation wages joebiden mortality lifeexpectancy 1990s billclinton barackobama hillaryclinton corporatism identity immigrants poverty inequality policy left right neoliberalism race racismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c2d1b6cc5c43/Editor's Choice Ep. 5: 'Cannibal Capitalism' w/ Nancy Fraser • Latin American Perspectives Podcast2024-01-12T03:21:22+00:00
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1O5ejHiJUvHjMtzrKyqKRl
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https://www.teenvogue.com/story/columbus-day-italian-americans-celebrate-sacco-vanzetti-day-august-23
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https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/196_the_human_side_of_the_ai_underclass_w_joanne_mcneil
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https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbBdy5VRoo8
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bidenomics/id1584397047?i=1000622627950
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeujvBvruL0
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-manifesto-w-china-mieville/
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/crack-up-capitalism-w-quinn-slobodian/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZyJiOCIr1A
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-right-kind-of-worker-with-gabriel-winant
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-on-barbara-ehrenreich
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https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/dead-people-rule/you-dont-want-to-know-this/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwxKR5-QKU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfuGSlDRsc
robertogrecoyanisvaroufakis cuba 2023 diem25 gloablsouth capitalism us dollar imf worldbank globalization china germany exploitation finance internationalism internationalsolidarity workingclass deathsofdespair cloudcapital behaviormodification online internet web ai artificialintelligence newcoldwar donaldtrump tiktok huawei wallstreet siliconvalley socialmedia economics wechat beltandroadinitiative currency hegemony imperialism vladimirputin russia ukraine palestine westernsahara yemen liberalism neoliberalism freedom liberation iran jackma humanrights solidarity classstruggle globalwarming climatechange keyensianism greenkeynsianism michałkalecki extraction revolution corporations democracy banking labor wealthredistribution war inequalityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:146c3f52ec3c/270 – The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) – srsly wrong2023-01-15T20:19:08+00:00
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/
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https://libcom.org/article/influence-italian-immigration-argentine-anarchist-movement-osvaldo-bayer
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https://overcast.fm/+jXUEP0cvY
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https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/its-time-to-abolish-the-family/
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https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/ideas-international-politics/2022/09/abolish-family
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https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/abolish-the-family-sophie-lewis-review
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https://thisishell.com/interviews/1063-sophie-lewis
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https://thisishell.com/interviews/1521-sophie-lewis
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FiD2JGrM3s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShDFFAROHRU
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https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5296-the-latin-american-hydra
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5iris3mXxY
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html
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robertogrecoThis exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them. These incessant and persistent efforts (since no social formation will concede that it has been superseded) form the terrain of the conjunctural, and it is upon this terrain that the opposition organizes.
Though this passage was written about interwar Italy and appropriated to great effect by Stuart Hall to explain the rise of Thatcherism in Britain, it is difficult not to recognize our moment in it.
In Riley’s reading, an organic crisis is a systemic political dissociation between represented and representative. Political leadership forfeits the acknowledged legitimacy of its constituency. Such a scenario may or may not call forth a novel political formation, depending on the development of civil society—which he finds an autonomous and contingent matter. Hall, however, adds another element: he distinguishes between the “conjunctural” and the “organic,” observing that a crisis only passes from the merely conjunctural to the organic when the “efforts” described by Gramsci cease to be restorationist and take on an inventive character, aiming to establish a new “hegemony” on the basis of a new social bloc. Per Riley, this is only possible on the basis of civic association, which he sees as largely absent across our political spectrum.
Certainly skepticism about the possibility of resolution to the crisis is warranted. Even the unlikely victory of both Democratic candidates in Georgia’s January senate races won’t transform the underlying fact of American politics: the ungovernability of the country. That, in turn, can only mean that the crisis will not be resolved in the near term. It’s true that efforts to resolve the crisis from the right have, for the moment, been beaten back. But Trump’s failure to cohere what Gramsci would call a hegemonic “historic bloc” across class lines is no guarantee that the right will not produce such a formation successfully in the near future: one can see the outlines of it in Trump’s barely defeated coalition and the fervid, if ineffectual, resistance to the election outcome—and can easily imagine its triumph in the absence of Covid-19.
Looking to the other side, it goes without saying that the current leaders of the Democratic Party are fundamentally incapable of resolving the impasse. As the weeks since the election have revealed, the party’s directorate wishes desperately to convey to its public a willingness to accommodate the police and the system of white supremacy of which they are the visible and contested face. This is nothing other than an announcement of an intention not to contest for hegemony—since the rival far-right hegemony coheres precisely around the slogan “Blue Lives Matter.”
At the same time, and more promisingly, the disarticulated elements of a left-wing hegemony also appeared in 2020—not together, but rather in sequence. First the Sanders campaign, and then the spring-and-summer uprising against the police, each expressed a fragment of a new historic bloc. The relative social disconnection between the different parts of this hypothetical bloc, itself emerging from the disorganization of the American working class, is the reason it appeared in two parts rather than one. Each half has its own internal structures of organization. Virtually every city in America and many smaller towns are now home to what is a national panoply of Black activist organizations that emerged or grew this summer, some associated directly with larger national groups, some local specialties. Their reach, depth, and radicalism vary, but we still have yet to fully digest the scale of their achievement this year in pure organizational terms. Similarly Democratic Socialists of America and related local groups such as the tenants’ unions that have emerged in cities across the country, the Sunrise Movement, Reclaim Philadelphia, Reclaim Rhode Island, Lancaster Stands Up—and even more moderate cousins like the Working Families Party, Justice Democrats, and Indivisible—have seen very broad rank-and-file participation over the past four years. There are points of intersection between these halves, particularly promisingly among young Latinos and in the struggle against the deportation machine. There are individual people who straddle them in a sustained way, and voters and activists from one who will turn out for the other. But the overall pattern of separation at the associational level is unmistakable.
In the moments of celebration after Biden’s victory was announced, however, one could faintly glimpse a new level of unity emerging. As people filled the streets both to defend the election result and to exult in it, a new bloc began to show its face. Trade unions, largely absent from the year’s earlier movements, figured centrally in demonstrations in Philadelphia, as they had done in the election campaign beforehand. The energy and solidarity of the summer uprising were present as well, transposed into a more joyful key. The decisive role of cities like Philly, Detroit, and Minneapolis in the defeat of the right points toward the possibility of leadership for the emerging socialist and abolitionist politics based in the young activist centers of those cities, and embodied on the electoral stage by Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and of course Nikil Saval. A socialist program that confronts white supremacy as its immediate object—rather than trying to find a majority by navigating around the edifice of white supremacy—is the principle of unity for this bloc. Its social basis lies in an alliance of low-wage workers and high-debt workers, disproportionately young, who are concentrated together in cities and increasingly in suburbs. It is not that such an alliance on its own constitutes a majority; it is that it forms a potentially solid social foundation from which to provide rational answers to the structural problems of American society, and thus to recruit the more disparate elements needed to resolve the crisis. Join together these parts, and you have a big enough resonator.
Still, to achieve this coherence will be a task of enormous conflict—with the forces of direct repression in the streets, which will not be discouraged by the presidential transition, and with the conservationist Democrats. Organization is the entire question—the building of relationships and trust across the forms of social difference that have thus far prevented the socialist message from resonating as widely as it might. For this, as it happens, Snyder had some advice, although he perhaps didn’t realize this was what he meant: “put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.” Or, as Phil Agnew put it—knowing exactly what he meant—“squeeze a hand.””]]>2020 gabrielwinant donaldtrump trumpism politics elections us fascism organizing blacklivesmatter race racism capitalism organization berniesanders dsa democraticsocialistsofamerica sunrisemovement protest activism reclaimphiladelphia reclaimrhodeisland philadelphia rhodeisland lancasterstandsup lancaster workingfamiliesparty justicedemocrats indivisible republicans democrats history future present ilhanomar rashidatlaib coribush alexandriaocasio-cortez jamaalbowman nikilsaval labor unions teaparty work workers philagnew stuarthall antoniogramsci timothysnyder qanon talialavin bluelivesmatter dylanriley hierarchy wendybrown liberalism neoliberalism covid-19 coronavirus economics alexpareene mikedavis joearpaio whitesupremacy minneapolis riogrande texas jessicacisneros workingclass class newdeal congressionalblackcaucas power elitism establishment eugenedebs california dreamdefenders florida socialism patriomonialism albertotoscano communism georgepadmore jimcrow colonialism settlercolonialism angeladavis marxhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2c04db5fb35b/Mike Davis on This Moment - The Dig2020-11-14T03:18:12+00:00
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/contributive-justice-and-dignity-work/615919/
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https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/noel-ignatievs-long-fight-against-whiteness
robertogrecoA big political problem is that many of the slaves think they are masters, or at least side with the masters at crucial moments—because they think they are white. I wanted to understand why the Irish, coming from conditions about as bad as could be imagined and thrown into low positions when they arrived, came to side with the oppressor rather than with the oppressed. Imagine how history might have been different had the Irish, the unskilled labor force of the north, and the slaves, the unskilled labor force of the South, been unified. I hoped that understanding why that didn’t happen in the past might open up new possibilities next time.
The book was a hit, by academic standards. Ignatiev now had a powerful platform. But he was also a decade removed from the steel mills, and he was unsure how much a book could really do. Privately, he questioned the value of his new life in the highest reaches of the academy. His on-campus provocations—which included a 1992 incident in which he called for the removal of a kosher toaster oven in a student dormitory—only caused bewilderment among students and administrators.
By 1998, it was time for him to move on. He accepted a post at Bowdoin College, a small school in Maine that mostly catered to white New England prep schoolers. The first class he taught there was a freshman seminar on the making of race; his most adoring student that semester was me, a naïve, vain eighteen-year-old Korean immigrant from North Carolina who desperately wanted to live outside the confines dictated by his race and his own privilege. Ignatiev, with his stories of working in the steel mills, his scorn for credentialled people, and his unwavering belief that a society free from white supremacy was possible, provided a model of a life worth living. I attended all of his office hours, learned to idolize John Brown, and read everything he put in front of me. In my dorm room and in the cafeteria, I talked excitedly to my confused friends about revolutionary politics and abolishing whiteness. At the end of that year, I dropped out and enrolled in Americorps, in hopes of becoming a radical.
I learned, ultimately, that I didn’t have the strength of his convictions. I could never see a new society in my co-workers or, perhaps more importantly, in myself. Even so, I kept looking for traces of what Ignatiev was talking about. There are moments—observing a seemingly small gesture of kindness between two protesters in St. Paul, or noticing the elegant design of the food halls at Standing Rock—when some great possibility seems to reveal itself. When that happens, I think immediately of Ignatiev and his belief in the revolutionary potential of ordinary Americans.
Acouple of months before he died, I drove up to see Ignatiev at his home, in Connecticut. His illness prevented him from swallowing, but he wanted to cook dinner for me in his back yard, where he had fitted a large wok over a rusty propane ring. “Even though I can’t eat anymore, I still find it relaxing to cook,” he told me. As we chopped up the vegetables in a light rain, we talked about all the things we had discussed in his office—John Brown, labor movements, the need to break away from credentialled society. Just as he would a few weeks later, at Freddy’s Bar, he expressed doubt about whether his work had amounted to anything.
I am not so vain as to believe that Noel’s influence on my life provides proof that his work, in fact, made a difference. If his ideas about whiteness and of “white privilege” became fashionable within the academy, they later took on forms he could barely recognize, and oftentimes, despised. He was bewildered by the rise of a style of identity politics that reified the fictions of race and, through its fixation on diversity in élite spaces, abandoned the working class. And as a lifelong radical he took little solace in the rise of a young, insurgent left drawn to the reformist revolution of Democratic Socialism. These movements, I imagine, must have felt like defeats to Ignatiev. We are very far from the abolition of the white race, and there are very few people who believe that changing the minds of five, much less five hundred thousand people, could potentially revolutionize the world.
And yet, from another perspective, there is no political or literary trend—or President—capable of derailing Ignatiev’s true lifelong project. In his writing, and in Race Traitor and Hard Crackers, Ignatiev demonstrated the transformative power of working-class stories. His radicalism was always tethered to specific people, who, in their own ways, inspired sympathy and a desire for connection. That specificity will always be relevant; it may be especially so at a moment of cynical alienation, when identities have become recitations rather than communities. There is enduring power in the narratives he collected and shared—the stories of people he met as a child, in Philadelphia, or in the plants and mills of Chicago, or in his classrooms. My favorite of these stories is included in the introduction to “How the Irish Became White”:
On one occasion, many years ago, I was sitting on my front step when my neighbor came out of the house next door carrying her small child, whom she placed in her automobile. She turned away from him for a moment, and as she started to close the car door, I saw that the child had put his hand where it would be crushed when the door was closed. I shouted to the woman to stop. She halted in mid-motion, and when she realized what she had almost done, an amazing thing happened: she began laughing, then broke into tears and began hitting the child. It was the most intense and dramatic display of conflicting emotions I have ever beheld. My attitude toward the subjects of this study accommodates stresses similar to those I witnessed in that mother.
Sometimes, while walking around gentrifying Brooklyn, I will see young, white progressives talking to the people whom they are displacing. There’s an officiousness—an almost disingenuous toadying—to these interactions that I, with my modern, fashionable prejudices, find a bit funny and gross. Do they believe that the contradictions between their stated politics and their actual lives can be cleansed through ritualistic bonhomie? Or are they just saying an extended goodbye to their temporary neighbors? Ignatiev might have looked at those same conversations and seen people who desperately wanted to be saved from their whiteness. He might have walked by, with a generosity of spirit that I do not possess, and dropped a few leaflets at their feet, filled with enthusiastic, optimistic provocations, and unreasonable demands.”]]>jaycaspiankang 2019 noelignatiev irish history race racism whiteness marxism socialconstructions society class radicalism us clrjames work labor privilege whiteprivilege behavior expectations falsehoods kingsleyclarke affirmativeaction sto johnbrown johngarvey credentials convictions kindness democraticsocialism abolition abolitionism organizing workingclass cv classwarfare radicals unschooling deschooling labormovements connection sympathy alienationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fc12136f7cc5/Krystal Ball: Democrats on track to nominate Warren, lose to Trump | TheHill2019-09-25T18:50:23+00:00
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