February 29, 2024
The reality is that self-immolation registers the near-total impotence of protest.
Madeleine Baker
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February 17, 2023
It Is Happening Again
Industrial toxicity without industrial employment
How many times have we seen this drama play out in the last several decades? Every presidential administration wants to fix America’s “crumbling infrastructure” until they discover the business interests profiting from disrepair.
New Left Review
Who did neoliberalism?
The extent to which the iconic movements of the ’60s United States fed on existing liberalism and fed into neoliberalism is, however, all the more reason not to isolate the New Left as a singular cataclysm that destabilized the New Deal order. Far from a gently humming machine that could have kept operating indefinitely were it not for the intervention of a new generation of radicals, the United States’ simulacrum of social democracy was a fragile assemblage of competing intellectual tendencies and political coalition partners that was always threatening to fall apart.
The New Deal order was simply too fragile for its winners to prioritize solidarity with less-protected workers.
