#americanleft — Public Fediverse posts

"Marx Prestige" ep 1

#AndrewHartman, author of #KarlMarxInAmerica, discusses "how #KarlMarx understood the United States as a testing ground for capitalism and democratic development in the nineteenth century."

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/marx-prestige-episode-1-the-civil-war-and-american-capitalism

#Marx #Marxism #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #AmericanLeft #USpolitics #AmericanLaborMovement #AmericanSocialism #books @bookstodon

"Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/

#Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

#HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

"Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

https://youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

"From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism

"The weakness of the #AmericanLeft is increasingly a European problem because an imperial core without a proper #left opposition is going to let the US or the hegemon export destruction and regression across the globe."

Great interview w/ #AntonJäger on the #AmericanPrestige pod about the state of #USpolitics, #AmericanLiberalism, the #USleft, and the implications of the #2024election for mass movements and #geopolitics

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e186-mass-politics-the-economy-and-the-us-election-w-anton-jager
#USpol #PoliticalTheory #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

"What strikes me most is just the slickness of the artifice, and I think they made a really kind of strange decision just from an affect perspective to go with "Joy" in a genocide and [as they] keep the genocide going..."

Beyond the Ballot: The #Left in a Time of #Polycrisis

A special conversation w/ Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Chenjerai Kumanyikaf

https://youtu.be/PN0O82HsP_g
#USLeft #AmericanLeft #USpol #USpolitics #2024election #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

"Today we speak with #RebeccaVilkomerson and Rabbi #AlissaWise about their foundational work in starting and growing #JewishVoiceForPeace. It’s a story captured in their new book, #SolidarityIsThePoliticalVersionOfLove: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing."

https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/09/09/solidarity-is-the-political-version-of-love-lessons-from-jewish-anti-zionist-organizing-conversation-with-rebecca-vilkomerson-and-rabbi-alissa-wise/

#PalestineSolidarity #Palestine #IsraelPalestine #JVP #USpol #USpolitics #USLeft #AmericanLeft #JewishAmericanLeft #PeaceMovement #books @palestine

#MouinRabbani talks with historian #MarjorieNFeld about the history of Jewish American #antizionism and the efforts to combat and marginalise it.

Feld is the author of #TheThresholdOfDissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

https://youtu.be/ndZqnyWZ6bc
#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #AmericanLeft #USleft #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #books @palestine

"[A] famous movie, Exodus .. tells the story essentially as a US western, and so basically makes #Israel into a Gary Cooper film, where they're out in the desert taking on the indigenous people heroically.."

#BenjaminBalthaser discusses evolving Jewish American perceptions of Zionism & his new book #CitizensOfTheWholeWorld: The #AmericanJewishLeft and Cultures of #AntiZionism

https://youtu.be/sYvhWfiuFjg
#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #USLeft #AmericanLeft #CPUSA #NewLeft #USpol #books @palestine

"In this panel, members of the French and #AmericanLeft come together to discuss the ongoing movement in #SolidarityWithPalestine and its struggles against #Israel’s War in #Gaza, and the growing repression faced by this movement in #France and the United States."

The #FrenchLeft in Solidarity with #Palestine: A Conversation w/ #MathildePanot (#LFI)

https://youtu.be/jW5IeIrbGUg
#GaucheFr #GaucheFrançaise #SolidaritéAvecLaPalestine #PalestineSolidarity #JVP #DSA #PolFR #USPol #PolitiqueFrançaise