Critique and Panic
Patience and self-irony are prerequisites to being able to acknowledge arguments against activist rituals and the atrophy of debate.
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Que Se Vayan Todos
For a Resurgence of Insurgent Dignity
People grabbing history by the scruff of the neck and attempting to exercise their own political agency is incredibly inspiring. How can it not be, when we live in a culture which insists that we do not have the right to control our own lives?
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Don’t Let Nazis Have Nice Things
It behooves people who are in contested cultural terrain to, well, contest it.
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Surviving the Siege
“Leonid Ilyich, no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten. But it has so happened that I, a survivor of the Siege of Leningrad, awarded the medal For the Defense of Leningrad, and my husband, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, have to huddle with our daughter in a sixteen-square-meter room on Lublin Alley.”
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Tyranny: Consent and Resistance
We have to be braced, both in the sense that history gives us a framework for seeing what’s possible, but also in realizing that some of what’s possible is terrifying.
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“Not leftists, those who stand with Assad!”
Condemn all the states that are carrying out wars against innocent civilians in the Middle East. They all oppose the self-determination of the peoples of the region and their struggles for emancipation.
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On the Road with a Fed-up Trucker
“It’s a rebellion, but that’s for the time being. We’ve been promised a crackdown in April, and those aren’t empty threats.”
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The Kids Are Alright
“I’m glad so many people showed up to the rally. People realize that corruption is an evil, that something has to change. I hope the teenagers who went to the rally will keep involved in civic activism.”
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Globalists Versus Chauvinists
So, which kind of authoritarian capitalism do you prefer?
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Healing Waters
The resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock is based on the conviction that peaceful, collective prayer can protect the water. But the camps and actions are also about healing.