5LL #247 - Palestine, Racism, Degrowth, California, Max Weber

Our Catastrophe
Nadia Saah, Jewish Currents
To mark the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, Jewish Currents—in partnership with Project48 and the Institute for Middle East Understanding—invited Palestinians to submit photographs that speak to their family’s experience of the Nakba, along with brief reflections on the images.
Revelation’s Edge
Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh, Verso
No politics but class politics: but which class and what politics? Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh argue, against those who seek to cleave race from class, that the proletariat is found, like power, anywhere there’s people.
Degrowing Pains
Justin H. Vassallo, The Baffler
The end of mass consumerism is inevitable—but what comes next?
Grieving Redness in the West: Reading Malcolm Harris After Mike Davis
Michael Docherty, Los Angeles Review of Books
For both writers, the imperative is to be totalizing but not limiting, syncretic but not reductive—always on the move.
Max Weber Was a Class-Conscious Champion of the Bourgeoisie
Kieran Allen, Jacobin
During the Cold War, US sociologists lionized Max Weber as a superior alternative to Karl Marx. For all his brilliance, Weber’s social theory glosses over the violent, exploitative nature of capitalism and serves as a pessimistic defense of the status quo.
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