5LL #258 - Queerness, Boundaries, Intellectuals, Disappointment, Johnson-Forest

Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?
Hugh Ryan, Boston Review
Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.
Boundary Issues
Lily Scherlis, Parapraxis
The problem with “boundaries” is that the world is designed to force us into financial and emotional dependence upon one another, and our primary metric for measuring the health of a relationship is being able to perform independence.
Intellectuals and Activism
Sudip Bhattacharya, The Brooklyn Rail
It is the left intellectual’s responsibility to use the training they’ve received and the knowledge they have to help make visible the political landscapes that left movements must maneuver in, as well as use their “recognized” intellectual status to promote left ideas and principles.
The Disciplining Power of Disappointment
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker
In a new book, Sara Marcus argues that American politics are defined by unfulfilled desire.
C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Counseling Communism
The Counseling Communism Study Circle met from May 2021-May 2022 to discuss the works of the Johnson Forest Tendency (JFT). We have collected their most important works here, and encourage you to find a few folks to discuss them with.
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