By Bernard E. Harcourt The Praxis 3/13 seminar on Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution (2017) and the Indivisible’s A Practical Guide to Resisting the Trump Agenda (2017) rubbed against a recurring point of friction at the intersection of critical theory and… Continue Reading
By Clayton Raithel I was drawn to one passage in particular in Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution, in which Sanders discusses the concept of usury: The Bible, and virtually every major religion on earth, has a term for this practice.… Continue Reading
By Ghislaine Pages The Praxis 3/13 readings focus predominantly on ends (ends which Karuna Mantena has already helped us explore), on the present material reality of people (in the United States) and how we can use existing systems and power… Continue Reading
by Brandon Terry and Jason Lee, August 2017, New Labor Forum The enduring problem of the relationship between leading political currents within organized labor, and those prevailing among African- Americans and black advocacy organizations, has once again become a central concern… Continue Reading
By Amna A. Akbar Our texts for this week, Bernie Sanders’s Guide to Political Revolution, and Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, represent much of what academics and leftists disdain about political work. They are crass, over-simplistic, not… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Bernie Sanders appropriates the term “political revolution.” That is significant in and of itself. The meaning of the term “revolution” has undergone change over time, and, in its modern usage, connotes “social” as opposed to merely… Continue Reading