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No work of art, no thought, has a chance of survival, unless it bear within it repudiation of false riches and high-class production.

A list of new and old Marxist classics for the age of pandemic, the anthropocene, tech giants, and late global capitalism.

In this excerpt from Self Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, Elsa Dorlin traces the lineage of the model citizen vigilante in the American tradition. In defense of a nation, she tells us, the vigilante enacts a form of racial justice that seeks to execute the natural enemies of private property, the family, and white society. What is bred? The Racial State.

When we are hoping for rescue, a voice tells us that hope is in vain, yet it is powerless hope alone that allows us to draw a single breath.

In this excerpt from Combat Trauma, Nadia Abu El-Haj highlights the painstaking efforts taken to grant American soldiers an exemption from the violence they commit.

The logic of the day, which makes so much of its clarity, has naively adopted this perverted notion of everyday speech. Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

We need radical ideas and systemic change to combat the urgent threat of climate disaster. This reading list of eco-utopian thinking can help guide us.

In a real sense, I ought to be able to deduce Fascism from the memories of my childhood. Now that they, officials and re­cruits, have stepped visibly out of my dream and dispossessed me of my past life and my language, I no longer need to dream of them. In Fascism the nightmare of childhood has come true.

Lynette Russell contextualises the importance of Patrick Wolfe in the study of settler colonialism.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers offers a lyrical introduction to Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W.E.B. Du Bois.

“The Culture Wars cannot be seen on their own–they are part of something bigger, and more dangerous.” A letter from the editor of Robert Bevan’s Monumental Lies.

“The revolutionary spirit will be surpassed by the number-one requirement of the modern world: mutation.”