5LL #241 - Technology, Children, Salts, Tactics, Nationalism

The Technologies of All Dead Generations
Ben Tarnoff, Metal Machine Music

How can we do politics through technology?

Children Are Not Property
Sarah Jones, New York

To expand our democratic project to children is to grant them the security the right seeks to deny them.

The Undercover Organizers Behind America’s Union Wins
Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg Businessweek

At Starbucks, Amazon.com and other big employers, activists known as “salts” have been a key to labor success. And they say they’re just getting started.

Is Environmental Radicalism Inevitable?
Kate Aronoff, The New Republic

The new film “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” arrives at a time when climate action has stalled and even nonviolent protest is criminalized.

Two Centuries of the National Question
Daniel Finn, Jacobin

Critics say Marxism can’t account for the popular appeal of nationalism. But the Marxist tradition contains some vital insights into the origins and future of national communities.

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