Category Archives: Lit Review

Going Back to the Classroom in a Time of Repression – positions politics

As campuses reopen, academics reflect on teaching under repression, surveillance, and the ongoing U.S.-funded genocide in Gaza, calling for courage, solidarity, and genuine education. — Read on positionspolitics.org/going-back-to-the-classroom-in-a-time-of-repression/

Mike Davis, The Political Economy of Late-Imperial America, NLR I/143, January–February 1984

Conventional definitions of American post-war ‘hegemony’ have focused on the sheer preponderance of economic and military power concerted through an atomic-military monopoly, monetary sovereignty, overseas investment, and historic differentials of productivity and mass consumption. Accordingly, from a baseline in the late 1940s when the conjunction of all these . . . — Read on newleftreview.org/issues/i143/articles/mike-davis-the-political-economy-of-late-imperial-america

People Like Us: Obituary for Bruce Reid | Long-Haul Mag

I was first advised to listen to Life in Abdication, and Tucker’s solo work in general, by Bruce Reid, my co-worker on the night shift at Quality Food Centers (QFC), a Kroger-owned grocery chain in the Pacific Northwest. Bruce was a devoted fan of the Velvet Underground, the type who had all the live bootlegsContinue reading “People Like Us: Obituary for Bruce Reid | Long-Haul Mag”

Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts: The Material and the Moral Compass | by Community Liberation Programs | Jun, 2025 | Medium

Although it is understandable for morality to be a factor in our drive to organize, we must be sure to underpin our ideology and methodology with material analysis in order to avoid errors and maintain clarity. — Read on medium.com/@communityliberationprograms/feelings-dont-care-about-your-facts-the-material-and-the-moral-compass-51414817ba87

Starship Stormtroopers: Michael Moorcock | libcom.org

There is Lovecraft, the misogynic racist; there is Heinlein, the authoritarian militarist; there is Ayn Rand, the rabid opponent of trade unionism and the left, who, like many a reactionary before her, sees the problems of the world as a failure by capitalists to assume the responsibilities of ‘good leadership’; there is Tolkein and thatContinue reading “Starship Stormtroopers: Michael Moorcock | libcom.org”