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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: dissentmagazine.org/article/coal...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam talk with @peterbeinart.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

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

"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...

A sobering and hopeful analysis from Nikhil Pal Singh: www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

"Inept opposition." Implications here for Dem leadership, absolutely.

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

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!

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

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam are very worried. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

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:

@maxgranger.info interviews the Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarette about the state of the country and Bukele's methods of control www.newglobalpolitics.org/el-salvador/

A recording of our event with @chiosse.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social, and @jwmason.bsky.social about how Zohran Mamdani can deliver on his agenda as mayor is online now. Watch here: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/recordi...

Dissent is hiring! We're seeking a full-time Senior Editor to work with us in our New York office. Details here: www.dissentmagazine.org/about-dissen...

Dissent is looking for a Senior Editor - please let me know if you have any questions about this position www.dissentmagazine.org/about-dissen...

From working-class unionist to three-term president, Lula da Silva’s journey reflects Brazil’s uneasy balance between procedural democracy and deep inequality. Our essay of the week traces the rise of Lula's pragmatic leftism. By @apagliar.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social buff.ly/ntqhJAr

Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Excellent essay in Dissent (@dissentmag.bsky.social) by USC sociologist Manuel Pastor (@profmpastor.bsky.social) on why the Democrats and the left have been losing ground with Latino voters. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...

Here's a relevant piece on these themes that I wrote in 2017 for @dissentmag.bsky.social. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not. @profmpastor.bsky.social on the Latino red wave: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...

For the horror of yesterday's ICE raid on Canal Street, "counterfeit" apparel is worse than a lame excuse. Knock-offs of branded clothing increase economic welfare & should be perfectly legal. My short blog post some time back in @dissentmag.bsky.social: www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/a-modes...

"At turns banal, well-meaning, and thoroughly off-putting, Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge." In our latest issue, Sean T. Byrnes reviews Outclassed by Joan C. Williams. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/talk...

Great @dissentmag.bsky.social piece! www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

Now unpaywalled: @apagliar.bsky.social on Lula's long fight for democracy in Brazil. The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/lula...

New online: Natasha Lewis interviews documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

From our fall issue: Rich Yeselson on the Starbucks organizing model. How does labor organize at scale? www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

As part of our section on Authoritarianism and Resistance in the most recent @dissentmag.bsky.social, Julia Gavarette writes about El Salvador's criminalization of dissent and the people facing a choice of prison or exile--and those with no choice at all www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...

“It doesn’t speak well to the American population that a much higher percentage of them voted for MAGA politics than the German population ever voted for National Socialism.” This is a must-read @dissentmag.bsky.social

This is a really good conversation on "is it fascism," by two opponents who are no longer very far apart.

Join us at the @versobooks.bsky.social office on October 14 for a discussion with @chiosse.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social, and @jwmason.bsky.social about how Zohran Mamdani can deliver on his agenda as mayor. Limited tickets available. Get yours today: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-will-z...

good stuff (naturally i've many reservations, but so what)

Can the most eloquent and thoughtful supporter of the "fascism thesis" and one of its most eloquent and thoughtful critics find common ground? Tonight on the Ganz & Riley show

I interviewed Dylan Riley about Trump, fascism, and civil society for @dissentmag.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

New online: John Ganz (@lioneltrolling.bsky.social) interviews Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and expanding the state’s carceral apparatus. Read @petizagavarrete.bsky.social in our fall issue: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...

New Know Your Enemy: Matt and Sam discuss the Charlie Kirk memorial service/MAGA rally with @patblanchfield.bsky.social. www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...

“I am a Gramscian in that I believe that to become hegemonic an ideology must offer a vision of a future in which the interests of those who rule coincide with the interests of everyone else. MAGA fails to offer one...Yet the opposition to MAGA also fails to offer an alternative.”

must-read

Many excellent passages here that make you stop and think about the present and how to interpret it in light of the past, this being one of the better ones:

“Still, my fear is that Trump will prevail in 2026, either because his base will remain solid or because of repression and fraud, or both. If Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress, Trump will be liberated to do whatever he wants, with no limits on his dictatorial power”

This is great. Being a political scientist at the moment is a bit like being a climate scientist a few years back. You can see clearly catastrophe is coming, but most people seem blithely unaware of it

"The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

Very worth reading!

Well worth a read.