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K. Sabeel Rahman joins @majorityreport.bsky.social to talk about why we need a Third Reconstruction.

Partyism Without the Party - Dissent Magazine Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

“Rolling back MAGA will require speaking to popular needs and aspirations and delivering on them. It will also require developing our capacities to work together in a spirit of democratic cooperation and public exuberance.” dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Check out the latest episode of the Know Your Enemy podcast where @lkatfield.bsky.social discusses her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right:

Public Debilitation - Dissent Magazine Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

Read @suzmkahn.bsky.social in our fall issue: dissentmagazine.org/article/publ...

good to see "partyism" taken up (and if anyone can come up with better branding for the tendency, they have my blessing fwiw)

This is a good read.

"Why fill in the hollow parties when you can do much the same thing outside of them?" Not quite sure I buy everything here, but a smart, meaty analysis of Mamdani campaign's civic roots and possibilities.

And, I might add, exactly what an author wants to see with a book out in the world.

Smart analysis.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with
@lkatfield.bsky.social about her new book.

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The Case for a Third Reconstruction - Dissent Magazine The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

In @dissentmag.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social makes the case for a third reconstruction.

The Case for a Third Reconstruction - Dissent Magazine The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

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Another great ep

Tonight!

Coalition Socialism - Dissent Magazine The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Read @cgmaisano.bsky.social in our Fall issue:
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Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Dissent Magazine Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with @peterbeinart.bsky.social

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Consistently the best political podcast I listen to, this. So good, and this one in particular so terrifying

Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...

"Both views ignore what may be Mamdani’s most important contribution in the current moment: he has resurrected a universalist, redistributive, civic-egalitarian politics that had practically vanished from the national and international scene." www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...

A sobering and hopeful analysis from Nikhil Pal Singh:
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"Inept opposition." Implications here for Dem leadership, absolutely.

Hurra! @heidireichinnek.dielinkebt.de kommt nach New York. 🗽

[EVENT | November 13] A Conversation With Heidi Reichinnek - Dissent Magazine An event with the German Left Party's parliamentary co-leader.

Next Thursday, join us for a conversation with @die-linke.de's Heidi Reichinnek, Ross Barkan, and @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social on left-wing politics in Germany and the United States.

Register here: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/event-n...

Jobby job.

“Mamdani shows how new constituencies are born from taking political risks and made through probing investigation and performative interaction.“

> Mamdani shows how new constituencies are born from taking political risks and made through probing investigation and performative interaction.

Bingo!

Zohran's Promise - Dissent Magazine The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward will be sustaining faith in the idea that the c...

New online: Nikhil Pal Singh on Zohran Mamdani. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Know Your Enemy: Break Glass in Case of Emergency - Dissent Magazine Matt and Sam are very worried.

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam are very worried.

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As long as Elon Musk is making us talk about Tolkien again here is @gerrycanavan.bsky.social's sharp piece about the challenges and joys of reading and enjoying Tolkien from the left www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolk...

Strong argument by the legal and political historian Aziz Rana for the analytical fruitfulness of the term 'settler colonialism' across a very diverse range of contexts: