5LL #205 - NGOs, Tradition, Geography, Disorganization, Emancipation

On Our Own Terms
Noah Zazanis, Spectre

We must look beyond NGO models of pro-LGBT and pro-choice organization, and towards independent workers’ struggle for the means of reproduction.

The Only Way Out Is Through
Erik Baker, The Bias

In this exhausted political moment, a  reactionary antipolitics is ascendent — one that looks to "traditional" aesthetic and religious pursuits as an antidote to the spiritual dead-end of conventional "woke" liberalism and free-market conservatism.

New Battlefields
Phil Neel, Ill Will

In several senses, there are very concrete questions of political organizing that have an immediate spatial dimension to them.

Our Moment: Proletarian Disorganization as the Problem of Our Time
Communist Caucus

We have lost the class institutions and political habits of organized struggle.

Marxism and Emancipation: an Interview with Dr. Asad Haider
Duncan Stuart, Cleveland Review of Books

We have to draw lines of demarcation within Marxist theory that separate its emancipatory political prescriptions, specific to the capitalist situation, from the doctrine of historical necessity.

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