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Eugenic Austerity (newintermag.com)

This governance manifests for the majority of the disabled people in England and Wales, if not Britain entirely, as a vast propensity for social murder.

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By writing The Peoples’ Era in 2014—a revolutionary theory for a “citizens’ revolution”—Mélenchon performed a Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism and its crisis. He redefined the notion of “the people”, those for whom revolution is now necessary. He shed light on the objective necessity to break with the capitalist order. This break, this politics of rupture, is perfectly communist. And this is the heart beating in all the work of the France Unbowed: to unite the people around a program of rupture.

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By writing The Peoples' Era in 2014—a revolutionary theory for a "citizens' revolution"—Mélenchon performed a Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism and its crisis. He redefined the notion of "the people", those for whom revolution is now necessary. He shed light on the objective necessity to break with the capitalist order. This break, this politics of rupture, is perfectly communist. And this is the heart beating in all the work of the France Unbowed: to unite the people around a program of rupture.

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For Said, humanism was a worldliness, a recognition (born from and shared with one of his great heroes, Giambattista Vico) that history, as something human beings made, was something they could understand and which they ought to claim responsibility for if they want it to be something else.

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Like bottomless-brunching weekend warriors, the Democrats only binge on “Resistance” in order to purge it from the work-week political landscape. This, and not winning, is their primary function.

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AI is a hype machine, a marketing machine, and through it we can illuminate the labour relations of the data-economy and the intensifying tendencies of what Deleuze and Guattari called ‘machinic enslavement’.

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Under the guise of increasing public order, Giorgia Meloni’s Draft Law 1660 is on the verge of criminalizing political dissent in Italy, stripping citizens of their rights and paving the way for unchecked state repression.

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The Great Jaurès (newintermag.com)

Jean Jaurès is not well-known or much-translated in English. The hero of turn-of-the-20th-century French socialism was revered across the international left following his assassination in 1914. This article discusses why he was loved by everyone from social democrats to individualist anarchists, and what can we learn from him today.

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The Great Jaurès (newintermag.com)

Jean Jaurès is not well-known or much-translated in English. The hero of turn-of-the-20th-century French socialism was revered across the international left following his assassination in 1914. This article discusses why he was loved by everyone from social democrats to individualist anarchists, and what can we learn from him today.

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Citizen Marx (newintermag.com)

Citizen Marx is a new book that studies Marx’s intellectual development in conversation with 19th-century republicanism. I thought it was quite good.

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Citizen Marx (newintermag.com)

Citizen Marx is a new book that studies Marx's intellectual development in conversation with 19th-century republicanism. I thought it was quite good.

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