5LL #253 - Carbon, India, Radicalism, Identity, Time

The Guilted Age of Carbon
Tad DeLay, Protean
Much of the greenwash industry makes things worse—and worse is monetizable.
The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook
Aparna Gopalan, Jewish Currents
Inspired by Jewish groups that cast criticism of Israel as antisemitism, Hindu American organizations are advancing a concept of “Hinduphobia” that puts India beyond reproach.
The Black Radical Tradition Can Guide Our Struggles Against Oppression
Robin D. G. Kelley and Daniel Denvir, Jacobin
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley has uncovered a tradition of African American radicalism that was — and is — a crucial part of the American left’s history. He talks to Jacobin about the need to connect struggles against racism and class oppression.
Sex and the State
Allison Brown, Dissent
Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson, Spectre
Insofar as people can define, create and expand the time of their social reproduction, then, they can and will push back against the state’s imposition of capitalist clock-time.
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