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Not friendly
As the popular mood shifts against Trump and more incriminating evidence piles up, I have to think that the courts won’t be friendly to his stonewalling of Congress.
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Insufficiently developed
It strikes me that the politics of marxism are still insufficiently developed. Often they are left abstract and general, not concretely informed by the particularities of the moment or conjuncture. Reflexive slogans substitute for strategic and tactical analysis. It’s no…
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Detroit and a political fix
At the disruptive heart of racialized capitalism is its re-occurring process of asset stripping, land and wealth dispossession, forced migration, and confinement and segregation of people of color to designated geographical spaces — the ghetto, barrio, reservation as well as…
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Rage against Obama
If I were going to single out a triggering event that fueled the rise Trump and Trumpism, it would be the election of President Obama’s in 2008. For right wing extremists — leaders and followers — the reality of a…
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Pales in importance
The unity of the left, especially when narrowly constructed, pales in importance to the unity of the broad democratic coalition opposing Trump and the Republican right. Nevertheless, sometimes the former takes up all the oxygen in the room.