5LL #396: Antisemitism, Gaza, DSA, Revolution, Novels
Good Jews, Bad Jews
Barnaby Raine and Gavin Jacobson, Equator
In this exchange, which took place on 5 May, Raine dissects the mainstream response to anti-Jewish violence, argues for a recovery of the radical universalism that once animated the Jewish left, and examines the perilous logic of a Zionism that seeks security through the patronage of a declining Western hegemony.
Franco Berardi’s ‘Thinking Gaza’ Fails To Think
Jake Romm, Defector
Berardi, in his Western solipsism, embraces defeat, and in so doing, he throws his lot in with absolute horror and the killers who create it instead of those who can still somehow see the light of redemption.
Defining Democratic Socialists
Paul Le Blanc, Communis
There has been in DSA a process of phenomenal growth, with older perspectives being superseded by newer understandings, and yet there is not agreement within its ranks on what strategy can make democratic socialism a reality.
Lacuna Beach
Seb B. Grossmann, Endnotes
How are we to organize and bring about communism when proletarian struggle is increasingly located outside the sphere of production, and when production itself is dispersed across global logistics chains?
Everything’s Fine
Isabel Pabán Freed, Nada Studios
The question of whether novelists should be Marxists or not — which Rooney and her work tend to prompt — is very simple to answer when you think literally everyone should be their own flavor of Marxist, their Marxism being seasoned by, among other things, the type of work they do, which is why the follow-up question of How Should a Marxist Novel Be is impossible to answer with anything besides a novel.