Dissent Magazine
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Democratic socialist since 1954. dissentmagazine.org
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Our summer issue on America at 250 is out now. In our special section, we have approached the country's anniversary from our perspective on the left. What can it mean to us? Featuring cover art by
@thetolerantweft.bsky.social
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Boston Review
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Join us and
@dissentmag.bsky.social
for America at 250, an online event with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher on June 29 at 12pm ET. The panelists will discuss their recent essays in BR and Dissent on the legacies of the American Revolution. Register here:
tinyurl.com/44yrhzbt
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āHere Where We Live Is Our Country," by Molly Crabapple is a popular account of a fiercely secular, anti-Zionist socialist political party of the Eastern European Jewish working class.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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Join
Boston Review
and Dissent for an event with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
https://secure.givelively.org/event/boston-critic-inc/america-at-250-a-conversation-with-adom-getachew-aziz-rana-and-david-waldstreicher
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Less than two years after winning one of the biggest majorities in British political history, the Labour Party is on the cusp of defenestrating its leader, Keir Starmer, and installing the United Kingdomās seventh prime minister within a decade.
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Doom Loop - Dissent Magazine
Starmerās leadership has been dedicated not just to avoiding but to actively suppressing any attempt to take the United Kingdomās problems seriously.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/britains-doom-loop/
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advait
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Really stellar piece from
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in
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on Manchin, Fetterman, and the outsized and idiosyncratic influence of their personal grievances on American politics.
dissentmagazine.org/article/fett...
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Mavericks Without a Cause - Dissent Magazine
The memoirs of John Fetterman and Joe Manchin offer revealing insights into two figures granted outsized importance by our broken political system.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/fetterman-manchin-senate-memoir/
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Patrick Iber
3 days ago
In the new issue of
@dissentmag.bsky.social
, I spoke to David Bateman and Julie Suk about the kinds of systemic reforms that could bring the United States closer to being a democracy
dissentmagazine.org/article/decl...
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U.S. independence once stood for the idea that all people have the right to govern themselves and to fundamentally change the conditions of their own societies. But has Americaās revolutionary tradition lost its global significance?
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The American Revolution in Global Retreat - Dissent Magazine
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/american-revolutionary-tradition-self-determination/
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Trumpās attacks on American democracy are serious enough to represent a real institutional break. It has been 250 years. Call it the end. What next?
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/summer-2026-editors-page/
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Call It the End - Dissent Magazine
Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/summer-2026-editors-page/
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The Office of Mass Engagement was a statement that the Mamdani administrationās approach to governance might differ from those of his predecessors: Instead of āI know what Iām doing,ā Mayor Mamdani seemed to say, āI need your help.ā
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How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement - Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mamdani-mass-engagement-office-organize-nyc/
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During the twentieth century, U.S. independence became a symbolic touchstone for many communities in the Global South. But has Americaās revolutionary tradition lost its global significance?
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The American Revolution in Global Retreat - Dissent Magazine
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/american-revolutionary-tradition-self-determination/
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In "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
3 days ago
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Legalized sports gamblingānot even a decade oldāhas quickly become a treasured American pastime; a multifaceted ideological campaign has normalized the phone as a harmless, pocket-sized casino.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sports-betting-online-gambling/
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Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sports-betting-online-gambling/
3 days ago
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Mamdaniās first mission with Organize NYC will be to turn out thousands of New Yorkers to testify at the public hearings of the Rent Guidelines Board ahead of its June meeting to vote on whether or not to increase the cost of rent-stabilized apartments.
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How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement - Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mamdani-mass-engagement-office-organize-nyc/
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If Zohran wants a rent freeze, there is good reason to believe heāll win it without much of a struggle. Why, then, mobilize renters en masse to testify ahead of the boardās final vote in June?
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How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement - Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mamdani-mass-engagement-office-organize-nyc/
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Josiah Walrus
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This article compares & contrasts two books on the Frankfurt School. One ends up inverting right wing conspiracies about them setting out to destroy western civilization, positing that they _actually_ wanted to destroy true revolutionary communism. The other book is a serious intellectual history.
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSEfChleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETF1MlpaUVhkeWh1SlQ5elZXc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHlw-9aJprK4tV-ZhkPRAVGqe_36k57MzXbJFUk5_Pob0On-m49wE4GmEUPKW_aem_ELsuTgYRl8-2-z5He7MoRQ
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More so than at any point in the last century, writes Aziz Rana, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
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The American Revolution in Global Retreat - Dissent Magazine
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/american-revolutionary-tradition-self-determination/
4 days ago
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āHere Where We Live Is Our Country," by Molly Crabapple is a popular account of a fiercely secular, anti-Zionist socialist political party of the Eastern European Jewish working class.
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. And if countless researchers, writers and legislators are to be trusted, we have a nascent public health crisis with significant economic ramifications on our hands.
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Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sports-betting-online-gambling/
4 days ago
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New 'Know Your Enemy': Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, "God Forgives, Brothers Donāt: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood."
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Know Your Enemy: Military Education and American Manhood - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam answer listener questions about post-Trump politics, the meaning of Zohran Mamdani, the fate of liberalism, and more.
https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-military-education-and-american-manhood/
5 days ago
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The success of Organize NYC, Zohran Mamdani's new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mamdani-mass-engagement-office-organize-nyc/
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How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement - Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mamdani-mass-engagement-office-organize-nyc/
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"The Bund had not so much failed as lost to an overpowering malicious force," writes Mark Erlich. "The responsibility lies with the democratic Western world, which barely lifted a finger to stop the destruction of European Jewry."
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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More than a quarter of American adults have a daily gambling habit, 42 percent of bettors have said they spend more than they should, and a majority of men ages eighteen to forty-nine have an active account with an online sportsbook.
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Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sports-betting-online-gambling/
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Patrick Iber
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Our review, by the way, is written by the grandson of the Bundist Henryk Ehrlich, killed (probably) in the Soviet Union in 1942 (probably)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_...
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Winners generally write history, but sometimes history has a way of resurrecting buried legacies. In "Here Where We Live Is Our Country," Molly Crabapple has unearthed an important part of the democratic socialist tradition.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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Der Spekter
6 days ago
Mark Erlich, grandson of Henryk and Sofia, shares his review of
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
's wonderful Here Where We Live Is Our Country.
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review
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āWho Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?ā builds a faulty model of the world, interprets evidence poorly in support of that model, and does so in support of a delusional political program.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary Marxism.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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One.Who.Yawns
6 days ago
There is a beautiful and inspiring interview on KYE about this book. Looking forward to reading it.
dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-yo...
Solidarity!
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Know Your Enemy: The Bund - Dissent Magazine
Matt and Sam are joined by Molly Crabapple to discuss her new book, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.
https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-bund/
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Damon K
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excellent politically minded explanation of
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
's book about the Bund, by the grandson of one of its principle characters
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In "Here Where We Live Is Our Country,"
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
dissentmagazine.org/article/jewi...
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Resurrecting the Bund - Dissent Magazine
In Here Where We Live Is Our Country, Molly Crabapple elevates an important part of the democratic socialist tradition at a time when many are looking for just such a usable past.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/jewish-bund-book-review/
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"The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy" describes the networks of right-wing activists that began to rely on the conspiracy more and more. It was obvious nonsense, but that didnāt matter. What was most important was that it provided a kind of Grand Unified Theory of conservative grievance.
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Kiss Kiss Die
10 days ago
āWe are witnesses to the hollowing out of collective achievementsāfrom the social safety net to basic limits on how war can be conducted. These were achievements that took generations to establish but can be burned down in short order.ā
dissentmagazine.org/article/amer...
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The American Revolution in Global Retreat - Dissent Magazine
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/american-revolutionary-tradition-self-determination/
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Ancom Reader šŗš¦ šµšøš³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļøš“šāøļø
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Which Way, Western Marxism?
@dissentmag.bsky.social
dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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THE BOOK GIRL
11 days ago
If you read only one thing today let it be THIS:
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āThe Cultural Marxism Conspiracyā by
@ajawoods.bsky.social
is a spry genealogy of our strange reality, which traces the conspiracy from Lyndon LaRouche through the New Right to the Tea Party.
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru called his three-week visit to the United States in 1949 āA Voyage of Discovery.ā One would be hard pressed to find a visitor now describing their time in the country in this way.
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The American Revolution in Global Retreat - Dissent Magazine
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/american-revolutionary-tradition-self-determination/
11 days ago
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In our latest issueās special section, we approached the country's 250th anniversary from our perspective on the left. What can this anniversary mean to us?
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Call It the End - Dissent Magazine
Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/summer-2026-editors-page/
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David B Hobbs
12 days ago
āConspiratorial thinking is unable to process contradiction, irony, contingency, or simple happenstance.ā
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Two recent books on the Frankfurt School demonstrate the difference between intellectual history and conspiratorial thinking, which makes no distinction between flimsy connections and deep ties.
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Jack Lewis
12 days ago
Helpful summary of the worst thing about watching current MLB
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During the twentieth century, U.S. independence became a symbolic touchstone for many communities in the Global South. But has Americaās revolutionary tradition lost its global significance?
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The American Revolution in Global Retreat - Dissent Magazine
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/american-revolutionary-tradition-self-determination/
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Kiss Kiss Die
14 days ago
āItās impossible to overstate the degree to which sports content has become gambling content.ā
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Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets?
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/sports-betting-online-gambling/
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Joel S.
13 days ago
"Ultimately, cultural issues are not mere distractions: they are about the ways we live together. They too, if you wish, have a material foundation."
dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Prisonculture
27 days ago
"The idea that powerful elected officials might secretly welcome having outside agitators āmake them do itā is a myth. The historical record shows politicians are more often irked and offended by rowdy movements that they cannot control than pleased at the prospect of being made to do anything."
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How Mamdani Can Build Mass Engagement - Dissent Magazine
The success of Organize NYC, a new initiative designed to bring a grassroots base into the guts of the governing process, will have implications for the left outside the five boroughs.
https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/mamdani-mass-engagement-office-organize-nyc/
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A.J.A. Woods
14 days ago
@patrickiber.bsky.social
wrote this compelling joint review of The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy and rockhillās Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? a really great read!
dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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No president of the United States will ever say it, but we know it to be true: at 250, the state of the union is not good.
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Call It the End - Dissent Magazine
Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/summer-2026-editors-page/
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James Longhurst
13 days ago
"The gap between these books is big enough to have been carved over millennia by the Colorado River" oh that's a good line
dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Patrick Iber
12 days ago
Finally, a book that asks the hard questions like "did the Rockefeller Foundation and the CIA use the Frankfurt School to destroy true Marxism as practiced in the glorious USSR?"
dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Jƶrg Auberg
12 days ago
A critical review of two recent books about the Frankfurt School in the age of conspiracy theories by Patrick Iber, co-editor of the left US journal "Dissent".
dissentmagazine.org/article/cult...
@dissentmag.bsky.social
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Which Way, Western Marxism? - Dissent Magazine
Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is an inversion of a right-wing conspiracy, in which the prominence of the Frankfurt School is explained as the result of a plot to destroy truly revolutionary ...
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/cultural-marxism-conspiracy-frankfurt-school/
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Moira Birss
13 days ago
In the latest
@dissentmag.bsky.social
, Chelsea Kirk & I write about the victory of private markets in the aftermath of the Eaton & Palisades fires, instead of what could have been: housing stabilization, tenant protections & collective disaster risk reduction.
dissentmagazine.org/article/los-...
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āDonald Trumpās 250th will be a carnival, complete with a barker-in-chief, attempting to sell the idea that the United States is winning like never before,ā writes
@patrickiber.bsky.social
. āOutside of MAGA-land, there will not be so much celebrating.ā
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Call It the End - Dissent Magazine
Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250.
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/summer-2026-editors-page/
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