5LL #309: Time, The DNC, Counterinsurgency, Syria, Growth
In Tune With Their Time
Nasser Abourahme, Radical Philosophy
Palestine is everywhere because it names a political subject of radical universal emancipation.
Fear and Favor in Chicago
Ari M. Brostoff, Alex Colston, Ismail Ibrahim, Lakshmi Padmanabhan, Nolan Perla-Ward and Dylan Saba, n+1
There was an expectation that Chicago in 2024 would register the world-historical quality of ’68. That did not happen.
Critical Counterinsurgents
Harry Zehner, The Baffler
The writers critiquing Israel to rescue Zionism.
Give Us Our Land Back
Banah Ghadbian, Spectre
This intervention examines: 1) Assad’s treatment of Palestinians in Syria as part of the motivation for the Syrian Uprisings; 2) the Zionist entity’s settler occupation of Syria in Golan and its use of “greenwashing”; 3) places and movements among Syrians where consciousness of multiple oppressions converge, and in particular, where a relationship to earth (using roses and apples as technologies of resistance) defies both the settler-colonial and neoliberal regime logics of domination.
Your Life and Mine
Benjamin Kunkel, The Nation
The choice facing the 21st century, then, is likely not between degrowth and growth. It is more likely between a form of capitalist contraction in which prosperity endures for a few but evaporates for the rest of us, and some kind of socialist or communist degrowth in which the well-being of everyone in general prevails over the wealth of anyone in particular.