Link to an article by Peter LaVenia:
“The State and Permanent Revolution”
Bonus links: The State and Revolution and Results and Prospects and “Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution'”
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Nyle Fort – Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times
Link to an interview with Larry Krasner, conducted by Nyle Fort:
“Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times”
Bonus links: “The Problem with Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Nicolas Bourtin and His Five Myths About White Collar Crime” and The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Russian Revolution at 100
Link to a series of articles from teleSUR about the October Revolution:
Kevin Murphy – From Compromise to Power
Link to an article by Kevin Murphy:
Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
Link to a report by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
“Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite”
Bonus links: “Joe Ricketts Is a Walking Case for a $1 Million Maximum Income” (“A maximum income—and progressive taxation more generally—is less about redistributing income than about redistributing power, though the two aims go hand-in-hand.”; this article does make numerous contradictory statements, though, first stating by way of a quote the principles of Modern Monetary Theory, then immediately contradicting them with reference to “starving public coffers of funds”; an important distinction here is between state and local jurisdictions that cannot issue currency, and a sovereign federal government that can) and “How the Rich Stay Rich” (this interview makes a misleading reference to a book that actually also admits that revolutions can cause equalization of wealth, but the interviewee seems to follow a similar defeatist line of thinking rebutted in War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century, for example)
Slavoj Žižek – Lenin Knew That Revolution Wouldn’t Happen Overnight
Erwin Chemerinsky – The Myth of “Plain Meaning”
Link to an article by Erwin Chemerinsky:
What Chemerinsky does here is apply principles of “legal realism” to critique the “textualism” school of thought as merely concealing the expression of class interests.
Bonus link: Language and Symbolic Power
Adam Tooze – Cumulative Impact of Mass Incarceration
Ernest Mandel – Liebman and Leninism
Link to an article by Ernest Mandel, reviewing Marcel Liebman‘s Leninism Under Lenin:
“Liebman and Leninism,” Socialist Register, Vol. 12, 95-114 (1975)
Alex Vitale – Police and the Liberal Fantasy
Link to an article excerpted from the book The End of Policing by Alex Vitale:
“Police and the Liberal Fantasy”
Bonus links: Review and “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and “Stop Kidding Yourself: The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People” and “Policing Class” and Punishing the Poor and The Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power and The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison and “Locking Up the Lower Class” and “Police Make More Than 10 Million Arrests a Year, but That Doesn’t Mean They’re Solving Crimes” and “An Empire of Patrolmen”