Clinton Williamson

What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising? A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.

“It’s important to note that it’s still the case that most people don’t vote in the United States. So we cannot look at the recent Trump election and take it as a kind of measure of the ideology of the working class.”

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What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising? A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.

My interview w/ Jasper Bernes: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

29.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD.

My piece on Kristin Ross's brilliant and essential The Commune Form is up at long last up today. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

02.04.2025 16:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

T.J. Clark on the new viabilities of fin-de-siècle anarchism lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

30.01.2025 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Essential piece on the necessity of reckoning w/ the sheer toxicity of capitalism at present and the need to realize that any future worth living will have to destroy particular sectors (namely tech) altogether rather than merely collectivize them newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

24.01.2025 00:19 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Houston

21.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Developed some 35mm of the Kincaid Mounds

15.01.2025 02:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ruchir Sharma: top 10 trends for 2025 Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US

"More than 20% of new US jobs are now created by government, up from 1% in the 2010s. Public transfers including Social Security account for more than a quarter of residents’ income in more than 50% of US counties—up from just 10% in 2000." www.ft.com/content/ff16...

07.01.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

"How many other people are in this position, too ill and poor to afford affordable housing? And too poor to be homeless?" www.esquire.com/news-politic...

27.11.2024 18:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/from-greedflation-to-stagflation-and-then-slumpflation/

06.07.2023 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Economic Consequences of Neo-Keynesianism We now have the first post-neoliberal administration in power in Washington. The Biden administration has explicitly disavowed all aspects of neoliberalism, including the assumptions about free trade ...

"US decline is not due to China, or any other one country, but to the fading vitality of the greater international economy made in its own image, and to which its fate, as the core of that system, is irrevocably chained." https://rb.gy/4h1pd

06.07.2023 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just ponderin the implications here in the wake of the hottest day in ~125k years

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