"For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of #Israel. But Israel’s war in #Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism."

#BenjaminBalthaser | How October 7 Remade Jewish Politics in America

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/us-jews-jvp-palestine-gaza
#Palestine #USpolitics #USpol #JewishAmericanPolitics #USleft #JewishAmericanLeft #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #peaceMovement #JVP

"Taking the Civil War as his starting point for this trenchant survey of the #AmericanLeft, Hartman offers us dozens of portraits of #Marxism’s main protagonists [...] and charts their triumphs and travails all the way up to the present."

Robin Blackburn reviews #AndrewHartman's #KarlMarxInAmerica

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/karl-marx-in-america-marxism-in-us/

#Marx #AmericanMarxism #USleft #UShistory #AmericanHistory #USpolitics #books @bookstodon

The racially mixed , smartly dressed browsers of progressive books in this 1938 photograph seem to be living out the CPUSA slogan of that time, "Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism"; note the "Harvard Communist" in the lower right hand quarter of the picture, the nearby collection box for aid for Spain, and the photograph of volunteers who were fighting for the Spanish Republican cause.

The following year's cynically concluded Hitler-Stalin pact and the anticommunism of the postwar decades dealt the US left blows from which it has never fully recovered.

I wonder about the various fates of the individuals pictured here.

#USHistory #PeoplesFront #PopularFront #CPUSA #Books #USPolitics #USLeft

The Outcasts of Zion | review essay by #BenjaminBalthaser

"The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of #AmericanLiberalism’s identity crisis."

#books discussed:

#BeingJewishAfterTheDestructionOfGaza
#TheThresholdOfDissent
#Doppelganger
#Unsettled
#OurPalestineQuestion

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-outcasts-of-zion/

#JewishAmericanPolitics #JewishAmericanHistory #JewishAmericanLeft #UShistory #USpol #USleft #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineQuestion @palestine @israel @histodons @bookstodon

#HaymarketBooks | #Trump's Hammer, Our Hope

"Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the continuing attacks on both marginalized communities and on #freeSpeech at the hands of the current administration."

https://youtu.be/9vP5p_oTmZU
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #stateRepression #civilLiberties #civilRights #USleft #AmericanLeft #activism #leftActivism #leftOrganizing #antifascism #antiracism

"From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism

An important contribution to the debate about the future of the left in the USA.

Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why. | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/progressive-left-philanthropy-strategy/

#USPolitics #USLeft #USProgessives #TheGroups #Philanthropy #Nonprofits #Democrats

"The weakness of the #AmericanLeft is increasingly a European problem because an imperial core without a proper #left opposition is going to let the US or the hegemon export destruction and regression across the globe."

Great interview w/ #AntonJäger on the #AmericanPrestige pod about the state of #USpolitics, #AmericanLiberalism, the #USleft, and the implications of the #2024election for mass movements and #geopolitics

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e186-mass-politics-the-economy-and-the-us-election-w-anton-jager
#USpol #PoliticalTheory #TheEvilOfTwoLessers

"What strikes me most is just the slickness of the artifice, and I think they made a really kind of strange decision just from an affect perspective to go with "Joy" in a genocide and [as they] keep the genocide going..."

Beyond the Ballot: The #Left in a Time of #Polycrisis

A special conversation w/ Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Chenjerai Kumanyikaf

https://youtu.be/PN0O82HsP_g
#USLeft #AmericanLeft #USpol #USpolitics #2024election #TheEvilOfTwoLessers