5LL #136 - Diversity, Black Marxism, Mike Davis, Class Consciousness, Dolly Parton

The Limits of Descriptive Representation
Sudip Bhattacharya, Current Affairs
After the disappointment of the Obama years, we need a new way to think about diversity in politics.
Why Black Marxism, Why Now?
Robin D. G. Kelley, Boston Review
The threat of fascism has grown before our eyes. Black Marxism helps us to fight it with greater clarity, with a more expansive conception of the task before us, and with ever more questions.
Amid the Wildfires
Micah Uetricht, The Nation
Mike Davis’s forecast for the left.
Re-Organize
Sophie Yanow, The Nib
The decline of unions led to protest movements without teeth. But in recent years, strikes and class consciousness are on the rise.
Goodbye, Dolly
Tom Sexton, The Baffler
Mythmaking in Dolly Parton’s America.
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