The entrance to the building was surrounded by a high wrought iron fence, reinforced by a dense lattice of chicken wire. Its porch was almost completely enclosed by high wooden panels painted an imposing dark gray. The home of Mary Lee Ward at 320 Tompkins Avenue, in the heart of the [...]
Was re-reading Enoch Powell instead of Mike Gold.
Ku Klux moralizers say the gangster system is not American. They say it was brought here by “low-class” European immigrants. […] But it is America that has taught the sons of tubercular Jewish tailors how to kill.
— Jews Without Money (pg. 37)
I’m planning on writing a belated critique of Jodi Dean’s “Communist Horizon” lecture in the next day or so. Readers might want to familiarize themselves with the material in the meantime. Or you can just trust your heart and take what I say at face value.
Blurb from Dean’s original lecture:
Focusing on [...]
From Richard, “I did a ten minute interview with Afshin Rattansi on Press TV. It was recorded just about the time the Murdoch stuff was first blowing up.” You can read Seymour’s latest essay in the new issue of Jacobin.
On a substantive note, it’s a bit disappointing to see a Jacobin contributor dressed [...]
Ever since the publication of Mike Davis’s Planet of Slums, slum rebellions, slum revolutions, the city-in-revolt, and similar variations of the theme have been stylishly thrown around, with the city set as the future’s political battleground. But Africa is still a mostly rural continent, and Egypt is an African country, with a third of [...]
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