If we can’t use the Democrats to accomplish our goals, then what can we use?
Chicago 1968 was where the New Left anti-war movement’s increasingly radical trajectory finally crashed headlong into the Democratic Party, setting the terms of a debate we’ve been stuck in ever since—a debate that’s grown particularly acute in the past several months. Our generation’s convention playing out as a geographic rerun of the older one is just an uncanny coincidence.
Stop Cop City is a movement by and for the committed left, by and for “leftists”
The movement in Atlanta is not exceptional for either its militancy or its broad-based community organizing. It is exceptional for fusing these elements in the midst of a relatively depoliticized period of “restoration,” and for doing so in a durable way.
