Ever wonder why leftists are so fucking forever frustrated with liberals?

I'll let the Boss explain. There's a reason he's the Boss, you see:

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

—from "Letter From a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963).

This dude literally invented the fucking blueprint for punk and it drives me crazy we don't credit him or his contemporary Malcolm X with it.

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This is a neato article/project and since I'm in London I'm going to try to go.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/collateral-damage/against-the-grain-archiving-anarcho-punk

#punk #anarchopunk #archive #RadicalPolitics

One of the best books ever written about punk/straight edge. If you haven't read it already, put it on your list:

https://www.pmpress.org/productsheets/pm_titles/soberliving.pdf

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Review: THOU Umbilical
"The primal anger at the center of Umbilical remains palpable, making it one of Thou's most memorable efforts to date."

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I was introduced to Chantal Mouffe’s «agonistic politics» today in a workshop on artistic collaboration and feedback. It’s been 30 years since I last read anything by her, but apparently it’s time to make up for that.

https://monoskop.org/images/3/31/Mouffe_Chantal_Agonistics_Thinking_the_World_Politically_2013.pdf

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The '60s Radicals America Forgot

I found this overview of a time period that has fascinated me for decades rather well done. I appreciate Ryan's work because he does his homework and takes it seriously. I also believe there's a lot more that can and should be said about the so-called New Left and this video is just an introduction to many of the salient features and issues.

#socialism #communism #NewLeft #America #history #politics #RadicalPolitics #Marx #Marxism

https://youtu.be/eHYpcXWCkUM

"To live according to radical politics, perhaps more than with any other approach to the world, can be to experience moments in which hope and lament, utopia and apocalypse, are inextricable." China Miéville, *A Spectre, Haunting*.

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