Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Climate Crisis, ‘Smart’ Growth and the Logic of Calamity”
Bonus link: Review of Robert Pollin’s Back to Full Employment
Links
Michael Hudson – Germany’s Choice
Link to an article by Michael Hudson, excerpted from the 2017 edition of his essential Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire:
Slavoj Žižek – Alt-right Trump Supporters and Left-wing Bernie Sanders Fans Should Join Together to Defeat Capitalism
Link to an article by Slavoj Žižek:
Bonus quote:
“The fear not to make any compromises with the alt-right can muddy the degree to which we are already compromised by it. One should greet every sign of this self-critical reflection which is gradually emerging and which, while remaining thoroughly anti-fascist, casts also a critical glance on the weaknesses of the liberal left.
***
“The obscenity of the situation is breath-taking: global capitalism is now presenting itself as the last protection against fascism, and if you try to point this out you are accused of complicity with fascism.”
Bonus links: “15 Writers Confess the Worst Thing They Wrote in 2017” and “Why We All Love to Hate Haider”
Paul Mitchell – Radical Russia
Link to an interview of Peter Waldron, conducted by Paul Mitchell:
“Radical Russia: An Interview with Curator Peter Waldron”
Bonus link: “How the Bolshevik Revolution Saved Avant-garde Art”
Project Censored – The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2016-2017
Link to a report by Project Censored:
Daniel Denvir – Donald Trump’s Reactionary Mind
Link to an interview with Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (2017), conducted by Daniel Denvir:
“Donald Trump’s Reactionary Mind”
Bonus links: Liberalism: A Counter History and War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century and The Theory of the Leisure Class and “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and “Slavoj Žižek on Law” and “Slavoj Žižek on Political Struggle”
Notice that basically all of the key points that Robin makes in the interview have already been made by others, going back over a hundred years. But Robin does simplify a lot of this, for better or worse. His most dubious claim is that the reactionary project began at the time of the French revolution. Historical figures/movements like the opponents of the Gracchi tend to indicate this stretches back to classical antiquity, though perhaps not in an unbroken chain.
Loren Balhorn – The Soviet Hippies
Link to an interview with Terje Toomistu, director of the documentary Soviet Hippies (2017), conducted by Loren Balhorn:
Bonus links: “A Brief History of Soviet Hippies” and “The Forms of Capital” and The Consumer Society (“Are they [hippies] not ultimately, from a sociological point of view, merely a luxury product of rich societies? Are not they, with their orientalist spirituality, their gaudy psychedelia, also marginals who merely exacerbate certain traits of their society?”)
Jackson Katz – Ten Must-Read Books About White Masculinity and the Rise of Trump
Link to an article by Jackson Katz:
“Ten Must-Read Books About White Masculinity and the Rise of Trump”
Bonus links: Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior and Delinquency and Opportunity and Merton’s Strain Theory (especially “retreatism”)
Amanda Mull – Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie
Link to an article by Amanda Mull:
“Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie”
Bonus links: The Theory of the Leisure Class, “Twenty-First Century Victorians” and “McMansion, USA”
Thorstein Veblen – Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?
Link to an article by Thorstein Veblen:
“Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?” from The Dial, Vol. 66, p. 174 (Feb. 22, 1919)