5LL #383: Masses, Expansionism, Books, Asad Haider, Militants
Masses
Phil A. Neel, The Planetary Factory
The only real way to overcome the limits of any folk politics is to create infrastructures through which these politics can be contested and practical alternatives formulated.
The New Era of Israeli Expansionism and the War Economy That Fuels It
Ahmed Alqarout, Mondoweiss
How Israel’s war-driven economy, regional realignments, and Netanyahu’s push for military independence are ushering in a new period of Israeli expansionism in its quest for regional dominance.
The Left Case for Great Books
Daniel Walden, The Point
When we teach great books we aim at the transformation of a person’s relationships to themselves and to others: as Plato would put it, we aim at a full turning of the soul toward what is good.
People Think
Ben Tarnoff, The New York Review of Books
Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.
Marx, Palestine, and the Birth of Modern Terrorism
Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker
A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left.