Tag: left
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re: Left fragmentation in USA, circa 1968-present (rough notes for future writing)
And I’m back to posting very rough notes… (1) Conceptual shift over past half century from civic/political framework to hobby/elective framework (i.e. “activism”). (2) In concert with broader cultural and structural shift away from “the commons”, toward individualism. (3) The implosion and fragmentation of the Left in the early 1970s. (4) Consolidation of radicals across…
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“Counter-hegemony” and Left Ambivalence Toward Power
I’m reading Cihan Tuğal’s Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism. I’m still working my way through it, but so far I’ve found it very insightful. There are so many things in the book that I’m looking forward to digging into, so I feel a little bad that I’m about to start with the…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 