5LL #202 - Criticism, Small Businesses, Utopia, Black Panthers, Revolution

Violent Antagonisms
Tobi Haslett and Jessica Swoboda, The Point

I’m always coming back to the perhaps too-basic notion that every object, every movement within culture, every molecule of collective life, is shot through with violent antagonisms.

"Real America's" Ruling Class
John Ganz, Unpopular Front

Conservative class politics and cultural resentment.

A Strategy for Ruination
China Miéville, Boston Review

We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.

Breakfast with the Panthers
Suzanne Cope, Aeon

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California.

Volutions
Guy Hocquenghem, The Baffler

Writing in 1974, long after the revolutionary misfirings of May 1968 had fizzled out, the French queer theorist Guy Hocquenghem recognized that we could not, “like a dog retracing its steps to smell the places where it has pissed,” return to the same strategies that animated the failed insurrection against the capitalist order—in Paris and across the world—six years earlier.

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