5LL #42 - Power, Social Reproduction, Hollywood, Audiobooks, Centrists

How a New Generation of Socialists Can Win Power (While Avoiding the Mistakes of the Past)
Kristen R. Ghodsee, In These Times

In his new book The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara lays out a compelling vision for how today’s socialists can forge a political path to power in the 21st Century.

Capitalism's Crisis of Care
Sarah Leonard and Nancy Fraser, Dissent

In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice.

Hollywood's Labor Force Has Always Had to Fight for Workers' Rights
Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue

The people who write movies and television, scripting the comedies and dramas that we love to binge, are locked in a gnarly battle for their rights, careers, and livelihoods, and the dispute involving them, their union, and their talent agents is lighting up Tinseltown.

Successful People Listen to Audiobooks
Nora Caplan-Bricker, The Baffler

Keeping company with my Audible app over lunch, I’ve come to see it as the buddy our tech overlords have granted me in the isolation that they help to impose.

Put Aside Your Purity Politics and Embrace My Feckless Centrism
Matthew Brian Cohen, McSweeney's

As the 2020 presidential election draws closer, it’s more important than ever for Democrats to put aside their differences to unite around my feckless centrist candidate.

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