Have to say, it makes you think given that Germany really was in catastrophic economic straits. Whereas we are... not that, in all reality. Almost as if superstructures of racial/class domination could be used to sustain a fascist and reactionary regime for years despite materialist fundamentals.

One way to explain why prisons are so big & bad in the US is that weak feds didn't create a post-68 (de)industrial policy, so unregulatable, austere states built racist solutions to structural problems. Now the racist solutions are pursued by fully funded, unregulatable federal cops and prisons.

probably a good time for a south asian critical race theorist to write on the sort of ladder pulling we see here

Beautiful -

“When I look out at the world, not at the cowardice of large institutions but the actions of actual human beings, I am verklempt at the scale of love, rage and (most of all) principled action that I see all around me.”

“one of the best things that those of us with some degree of formal, officially credentialed expertise regarding the law is…to calmly explain the law and its limits so as to dispel illusions about its utility…and thus to…create more space for
confidence in the working class collectively.“

“The legalism I tried to write against…exists in part in the form of something like thought-stopping cliches, phrases which direct or restrict critical attention. We should encourage people to not fall for that, to see through it, to dismiss it as a rhetorical move made by their enemies.“

“To aid them or to wish their success - to desire a more robust counter-hegemony - includes wan[t]ing their moral sensibility to spread to others as one facet of their counter-hegemony.“