5LL #342: Unity, Paranoia, Sudan, Literature, Capital
Israel's Exports of Violence
Séamus Malekafzali, Substack
Israel's genocidal war in Gaza does not affect Gaza alone. If oppressive states all over the world see unity in their cause, those who oppose them should see unity in their own cause as well.
The Paranoid Fantasies Of ‘October 8’
Jake Romm, Defector
Then as now, reality has a way of pushing back.
Sudan’s World War
Joshua Craze, New Left Review
For those arming Sudan’s belligerents, war can bring with it as many opportunities for profit as peace, and it might be easier to exert influence over a fractured, broken Sudan.
Front Lines
Kay Gabriel and Patrick Dedauw, Bookforum
Just like in Marat/Sade, Weiss in The Aesthetics of Resistance models dialectical thinking through productively frictive conversation, as steel sharpens steel: he forces us to take seriously both sides in political debates that we ourselves have no practical stakes in, but that we ought to learn something from and can only come to grips with by thinking generously alongside other people.
The Sameness of Different Things
Benjamin Kunkel, Harper’s Magazine
The main achievement of all this reading, however, is not likely to be some immensely sophisticated and complex intellectual operation on the model of Capital itself; it’s the secondary or renovated simplicity that allows you to see human society as the sum of human activity, just as any dog or cat would do.