5LL #408: 1776, Liberals, Academia, Age, Earth Liberation Front
The Enemies of 1776
Dylan Saba, Protean
America needs its enemies. And so the imperial form, which reaches both outward to plunder the world and inward to police the internally dispossessed, will continue to produce them until it is undone.
All You Fascist Liberals
Richard Seymour, Parapraxis
If liberalism contains some of the germs of fascism, it also contains the very revolutionary potential upon which any emancipatory project depends.
In the Grip of Politics
Greg Afinogenov, n+1
The irony of the Report is that its attempt to oppose the politicization of academia is more stridently political than the fields it aims to critique.
Cradle to the Grave
Gabriel Winant, LPE
What a clear picture of age as a mediator of class would show us is not actually gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.
Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America
Matthew Wolfe, Literary Hub
Matthew Wolfe profiles two Oregon activists radicalized by environmental destruction.