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Jeffrey St. Clair – Notes From the DNC

Link to articles by Jeffrey St. Clair recounting the 2016 Democratic National Convention:

“Don’t Cry For Me, DNC: Notes From the Democratic Convention”

“The Humiliation Games: Notes on the Democratic Convention”

“Night of the Hollow Men: Notes From the Democratic Convention”

“She Stoops to Conquer: Notes From the Democratic Convention”

Bonus links: “Julian Assange: Choosing Between Trump or Clinton is Like Picking Between Cholera or Gonorrhea” and “Leaked DNC Emails Confirm Anti-Sanders Conspiracy” and “Stop Trump Fundamentalists Can Bite Me” and “The Political Compass: The U.S. Presidential Candidates 2016”

Matt Kennard & Claire Provost – Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don’t Apply

Link to an article by Matt Kennard & Claire Provost:

“Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don’t Apply”

David Harvey – Neoliberalism Is a Political Project

Link to an interview of David Harvey by Bjarke Skærlund Risager:

“Neoliberalism Is a Political Project”

Antonio Gramsci

“To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.”

Antonio Gramsci with Palmiro Togliatti, L’Ordine Nuovo, 21 June 1919, Vol. 1, No. 7.

Lester Spence – Black Studies 3.0

Link to an article by Lester K. Spence:

“Black Studies 3.0”

Alycee Lane – Violence, Death and Our Neoliberal Police

Link to an article by Alycee Lane:

“Violence, Death and Our Neoliberal Police”

Bonus links: “Did the Color of His Skin Kill Philando Castile?: How Not to Talk About Racism,” “Something Is Rotten in the State of Minnesota”

Alan Nasser – Making Greater Possibilities Inconceivable

Link to an article by Alan Nasser:

“Making Greater Possibilities Inconceivable: Another Thought or Two on the Logic of Lesser Evilism”

Bonus Quote: “I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don’t want and get it.” Eugene V. Debs

Bonus Link: Lizard democracy quote by Douglas Adams from So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Peter Frase – Social Democracy’s Breaking Point

Link to an article by Peter Frase:

“Building the Crisis”

What this article does not address is how Karl Polanyi‘s argument was basically a watered-down, centrist restatement of the theories of Thorstein Veblen.

CSC Interview with Daniel Zamora

Link to an interview of Daniel Zamora by Dave Zeglen:

“CSC Interview with Daniel Zamora”

See also: “How Michel Foucault Got Neoliberalism So Wrong” and “Foucault’s Responsibility” and Read My Desire

Thomas Ferguson – Defying the Investors

Link to an interview with Thomas Ferguson:

“Defying the Investors”