This may be the most comprehensive and most ambitious attempt yet made by an american marxist to assess the conditions of class struggle in the united states since the george floyd rebellion and the prospects for revolutionary organization that I've read richardhunsinger.substack.com/p/policing-the…

I would say we should be mostly dubious of the received orthodoxy. I for one am often puzzled when even late Adorno is dismissed for pessimism without elaboration from the left.

A dying empire is a dangerous beast, and will exact much blood as the price of its downfall. Obviously Trump wants to consolidate the chain of far-right governments in Latin America — but like much else it does, that is pure ideology and it won’t stop the decline.

This is just an execution by this ICE officer

“Kill someone else!” After killing an innocent woman in Minneapolis Trump’s ICE goons are roughing up protestors and firing munitions into people’s faces. Original video: instagram.com/reel/DTOAPs6jJ…

Renee Nicole Good is the second person who has been killed by ICE this week. In LA, ICE killed Keith Porter in his own home as he celebrated on New Year’s Eve.

They’ve been murdering people the whole time

Estimates for people rallying in Minneapolis is about 10,000.

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as a twin cities resident through 2020-2021, seeing the cheerleading for Walz's threat of national guard deployment in MN is totally surreal. can't even really process it

Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.

In Commonweal, I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace the cause of prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.