5LL #182 - Strategy, Catastrophes, Risk, Assassinations, Marcuse

The Necessity of Taking Back the Streets
Warren Montag, Spectre
If the notion of class war is something more than a metaphor to be understood in a purely figurative sense, the Left has to confront the problem of strategy.
The Interminable Catastrophe
Bedour Alagraa, offshoot
Catastrophe is a structural condition, and a way of life imposed as a form of political and social domination, beginning with the New World colonial encounter(s).
Workers Are Risk-Takers Too
Raphaële Chappe, Late Light
Capitalism supposedly compensates risk—except in the case of workers.
The Assassination Gap
Adam Kotsko, An und für sich
The mass shooting has effectively replaced the political assassination as the preferred contemporary mode of stochastic violence.
What Herbert Marcuse Got Right — and Wrong
Jeremy Cohan and Benjamin Serby, Jacobin
Socialists today should learn from Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man: in particular, its spirit of protest, its materialist social theory, and its warnings about commodified liberation. But they should leave behind its moralism and despair about change.
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