Clinton Williamson
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c19/c20 american lit, refusals to work, & communistic poiesis at rice
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“It’s important to note that it’s still the case that most people don’t vote in the United States. So we cannot look at the recent Trump election and take it as a kind of measure of the ideology of the working class.”
What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising?
A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.
www.thenation.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“It’s important to note that it’s still the case that most people don’t vote in the United States. So we cannot look at the recent Trump election and take it as a kind of measure of the ideology of the working class.”
My interview w/ Jasper Bernes: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
What Connects the Paris Commune and the George Floyd Uprising?
A conversation with the writer and theorist Jasper Bernes about the left after the summer of 2020 and the state of revolutionary politics.
www.thenation.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My interview w/ Jasper Bernes: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
My piece on Kristin Ross's brilliant and essential The Commune Form is up at long last up today. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune
Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD.
www.thenation.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My piece on Kristin Ross's brilliant and essential The Commune Form is up at long last up today. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
T.J. Clark on the new viabilities of fin-de-siècle anarchism lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…
January 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
T.J. Clark on the new viabilities of fin-de-siècle anarchism lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…
Essential piece on the necessity of reckoning w/ the sheer toxicity of capitalism at present and the need to realize that any future worth living will have to destroy particular sectors (namely tech) altogether rather than merely collectivize them newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
January 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Essential piece on the necessity of reckoning w/ the sheer toxicity of capitalism at present and the need to realize that any future worth living will have to destroy particular sectors (namely tech) altogether rather than merely collectivize them newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Developed some 35mm of the Kincaid Mounds
January 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Developed some 35mm of the Kincaid Mounds
"More than 20% of new US jobs are now created by government, up from 1% in the 2010s. Public transfers including Social Security account for more than a quarter of residents’ income in more than 50% of US counties—up from just 10% in 2000." www.ft.com/content/ff16...
Ruchir Sharma: top 10 trends for 2025
Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US
www.ft.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"More than 20% of new US jobs are now created by government, up from 1% in the 2010s. Public transfers including Social Security account for more than a quarter of residents’ income in more than 50% of US counties—up from just 10% in 2000." www.ft.com/content/ff16...
"How many other people are in this position, too ill and poor to afford affordable housing? And too poor to be homeless?" www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:39 PM
"How many other people are in this position, too ill and poor to afford affordable housing? And too poor to be homeless?" www.esquire.com/news-politic...
"US decline is not due to China, or any other one country, but to the fading vitality of the greater international economy made in its own image, and to which its fate, as the core of that system, is irrevocably chained." https://rb.gy/4h1pd
The Economic Consequences of Neo-Keynesianism
We now have the first post-neoliberal administration in power in Washington. The Biden administration has explicitly disavowed all aspects of neoliberalism, including the assumptions about free trade ...
rb.gy
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
"US decline is not due to China, or any other one country, but to the fading vitality of the greater international economy made in its own image, and to which its fate, as the core of that system, is irrevocably chained." https://rb.gy/4h1pd
Just ponderin the implications here in the wake of the hottest day in ~125k years
November 19, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Just ponderin the implications here in the wake of the hottest day in ~125k years