5LL #275 - Poets, Comparisons, Biden, Compulsion, Negri

These Are the Poets and Writers Who Have Been Killed in Gaza.
Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub

If we think of ourselves as a global literary community, then these people were our fellow travelers, our peers.

Comparison Is the Way We Know the World
Masha Gessen, n+1

There is a paradox: we imagine the Holocaust in great detail, but we conceive of it as fundamentally unimaginable.

Biden Is His Own Worst Enemy in 2024. Time for Someone Else.
Gabriel Winant, In These Times

In fumbling his response to Gaza, the President has redrawn the electoral map against himself—and the latest attempts to course correct won’t save him.

An Introduction to Marxism Unlike Any Other
Matt McManus, The Nation

Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion offers a unique and relatable entry into the social and economic dimensions of modern Marxist thought.

A Communist Life
Alberto Toscano, New Left Review

For Negri, freedom was a collective struggle against this lethal power, a fight against the fear of death, against terror, power’s currency.

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