Gary Dorrien - American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory

A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists

Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a widespread recognition that global capitalism works only for a minority and is harming the planet’s ecology. This history of American democratic socialism from its beginning to the present day interprets the efforts of American socialists to address and transform multiple intersecting sites of injustice and harm. Comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly original, this book offers a luminous synthesis of secular and religious socialisms, detailing both their intellectual and their organizational histories.

Что такое левая урбанистика?

В этом видео Антон Польский, один из основателей проекта partizaning,  отвечает на вопрос о том какие подходы применяются в левой урбанистике и чем его подход отличается от подхода популярных сегодня Городских проектов.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JS7FcbBNRMM

William C. Anderson - No escaping the state: the story of Lovett Fort-Whiteman

The life of a Black radical who fled state violence in the US only to find it under a different name in the Soviet Union shows the state is never the solution.

https://roarmag.org/essays/story-of-lovett-fort-whiteman/

Алексей Цветков - История крупнейшей студенческой организации SDS (Студенты за демократическое общество). Часть 1

Студенты за демократическое общество (SDS ) была национальной студенческой активистской организацией в Соединенных Штатах в течение 1960-х годов, и был одним из основных представителей новых левых . Презирая постоянных лидеров, иерархические отношения и парламентскую процедуру, основатели рассматривали организацию как широкое упражнение в «демократии участия». С момента своего создания в 1960 году в течение бурного десятилетия она быстро росла: более 300 отделений в кампусе и 30 000 сторонников были зарегистрированы по всей стране на последнем национальном съезде в 1969 году. На этом съезде организация раскололась на фоне соперничества между фракциями, стремящимися навязать национальное лидерство и руководство. и оспаривая «революционные» позиции, среди прочего, по войне во Вьетнаме и Black Power .

00:08 – Кто такие SDS? В «Форрест Гампе» и в критике слева и справа.
02:59 – Мировоззрение и цели. Порт-Гуронская декларация.
05:09 – Университет и новое сознание.
08:41 – Том Хайден как харизматичный лидер
10:02 – Откуда они взялись и с чего они начали?
13:04 – Что они читали?
15:14 – Беркли как источник беспокойства
18:35 – Конфронтация растёт

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYh1NLCRIhM

Rob Weatherill - The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post ‘68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud’s paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry, schizoanalysis and radical politics, the complex antimonies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Levinas, Steiner, Žižek, Badiou, Derrida and Girard, as well as theologians, analysts, writers, musicians and film makers. 　

In this book, Rob Weatherill, starting from the clinic, considers the end of hierarchies, the loss of the Other, new subjectivities, so-called ‘creative destruction’, the power of negative thinking, revolutionary action, divine violence and new forms of extreme control. The book raises the following questions: Does the engagement of the Radical Orthodoxy movement offer some hope? Or should we re-situate psychoanalysis within a ‘genealogy of responsibility’ (Patočka / Derrida) as it emerges out of the sacred demonic, via Plato and Christianity?

Алексей Цветков - История крупнейшей студенческой организации SDS (Студенты за демократическое общество). Часть 2

00:08 – Пол Буле вспоминает
01:08 – Волнения в Колумбийском университете и международная контркультурная революция
04:38 – События в Чикаго
10:18 – Финальный съезд и раскол в 1969
14:52 – «Синоптики» и маоисты
17:57 – О чем эта история и что с ними было дальше?
22:25 – Ретромания и косплей

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ae4TyS5-AFo&t=2s

А. Гундырева, Н. Кучинский - От сжигания американского флага до деловых форумов

Как менялись государственные молодежные организации

Еще несколько лет назад Росмолодежь спонсировала Юрия Хованского и других блогеров, а теперь блокирует сайты и участвует в политических репрессиях: уголовное дело против редакторо_к DOXA было заведено именно по жалобе Росмолодежи.

От акции «Все путем!» и «Селигера» до студенческих стройотрядов и сбора наказов для «Единой России»: читайте новый текст о том, как изменилась молодежная политика государства за последние 20 лет.

https://doxajournal.ru/government_youth_organizations/

B. Sanghera, E. Satybaldieva - Rentier capitalism and class warfare in Kazakhstan

Blame ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for the country’s recent protests

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/rentier-capitalism-and-class-warfare-in-kazakhstan/

El Salvador’s Democracy Was Hard-Won. Now President Nayib Bukele Threatens It.

An interview with Nidia Diaz

Today marks 30 years since the end of El Salvador's civil war, which claimed over 75,000 lives. Nidia Díaz, a leftist guerrilla tortured by state forces during the conflict, discusses the war and how the democratic gains of that struggle are being undermined.

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/nidia-diaz-el-salvador-chapultepec-peace-accords-bukele-fmln/

Karen Cook Bell - Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.

Апокалиптическая сатира

Don’t Look Up интереснее, чем пишут критики

Сегодня у меня просто небольшой рэнт о фильме «Не смотри вверх» (Don’t Look Up), о том, стоит ли кинематографу проговаривать очевидные вещи, и о том, обязана ли сатира быть смешной.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1gNaGMCuM&t=5s

Blaming The Victims: Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question.  Edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said

Since the 1948 war which drove them from their homeland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic attempts to dismiss their claim to a home within the boundaries of historical Palestine and even to deny their very existence.

Beginning with a thorough expose of the fraudulent assertions of Joan Peters concerning the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine prior to 1948, the book then turns to similar instances in Middle East research where the truth about the Palestinians has been systematically suppressed: from the bogus though still widely believed explanations of why so many Palestinians fled their homes in 1948, to today's distorted propaganda about PLO terrorism. The volume also includes sharp critiques of the wide consensus in the USA which supports Israel and its territorial ambitions while maintaining total silence about the competing reality of the Palestinians.

Dawne McCance - The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La vie la mort

During the 1975–76 academic year, Jacques Derrida delivered a seminar, La vie la mort (Life Death), at the École normale supérieure, in Paris. Based on archival translations of this untapped but soon-to-be-published seminar, The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement with molecular biology and genetics, particularly the work of the biologist François Jacob.

Structured as an itinerary of “three rings,” each departing from and coming back to Nietzsche, Derrida’s seminar ties Jacob’s logocentric account of reproduction to the reproductive program of teaching that characterizes the academic institution, challenging this mode of teaching as auto-reproduction along with the concept of “academic freedom” on which it is based. McCance also brings Derrida’s critique of Jacob’s theory of auto-reproduction together with his reading of reproductivity, the tendency to repeat-reproduce, that is theorized and enacted in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The book further shows how Derrida’s account of life death relates to his writings on autobiography and the signature and to such later concerns as the question of the animal. McCance brings extensive archival research together with a deep knowledge of Derrida’s work a background in genetics to offer a fascinating new account of an encounter between philosophy and the hard sciences that will be of interest to theorists in a wide range of disciplines concerned with the question of life.

Judith Butler - Laclau, Marx, and the Performative Power of Negation

Originally delivered at a conference in Paris in 2015, here Judith Butler discusses the work of philosopher Ernesto Laclau who she describes as "one of the truly great thinkers in our lifetimes" – in relation to that of Marx, and to the power of the negative.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5238-judith-butler-laclau-marx-and-the-performative-power-of-negation

Небесный марксизм и радикальная уфология

00:09 Хуан Посадас: от троцкизма к НЛО-социализму
10:12 Посадизм как апокалиптический культ ядерной бомбы
20:33 Ликбез по левым культам: Джерри Хили, Тед Грант, Марлин Диксон
30:14 Контактеры с космосом: неопосадизм, «Альфа и Омега»
38:42 Антикап-пранкеры: радикальные уфологи и автономные астронавты
46:03 Марсианская утопия: Хаким Бей, сапатисты и кислотный коммунизм

https://anchor.fm/radio-morgiana/episodes/8-1-emode7