True, but there are also, sometimes, plane accidents outside of the Unhinged States that have nothing to do with the shit show going on there. The weather has been less than ideal in Toronto.

You do understand that Toronto is not in the Unhinged States, don't you?

the nature of capitalism itself, and the nature of capitalism's relationships with and dependence on non-capitalist modes of being.

I've dealt with a lot of agents provocateur in Toronto, and I'm sure it's no different in Montreal, but in this case I suspect that she's just a complete asshole.

On the raged edges of capitalism and among those whose souls it has not entirely captured (even in the belly of the beast), that world already exists, trying hard to fight against the current. In pockets, here and there, always under threat. Capitalist media don't report on it, but it's there.

Biden and Netanyahu respond: "ICC is Hamas" adding "they have tunnels".

So true.

I am suggesting that an overarching set of logics founded in capitalism, racism, and militarization is moving the world toward a particular overarching structure of mobility controls that, even while the local expressions may be different, nevertheless form part of a broader pattern."

As Mbembe's work so consistently is (full of insights).

It's not that I overlooked your project, rather I did not realize that this was your project (I just got here), and saw it as a single post. Thanks for the clarification.

I understand what you are saying. "Middle class" is of course a folk category that undermines class consciousness rather than an analytical classification such as "working class".

Marx discarded a whole array of classes that had different relationships with means of production as residual, but these classes (and non-capitalist modes of production) did not disappear and are not, on a global scale, insignificant particularly as they are not entirely subsumed within capitalism.

I understand where you are coming from, but this is a radical over-simplification (that was helpful to Marx and Engels) that I think now gets in the way of understanding capitalism and the possibilities of worlds beyond it.