Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) was a fugitive slave whose recapturing, extradition, and court case led to wide-scale public outcries of injustice, and ultimately, increased opposition to slavery by Northerners.

The latest Citations Needed podcast discusses Christian movies and they have Franky Schaeffer on as a guest.

Riot is the recourse of surplus populations: both Marx's "industrial reserve army" and the lumpen, the excluded — those who are "chronically outside the formal wage, or 'structurally unemployed.' "

"VICE News' Isobel Yeung returns to Syria to tell the stories of the people who were caught in the crossfire between the most feared terror group on Earth and the U.S.-backed coalition, as they try to rebuild among the ruins"

good interview

A couple of weeks after I visited the Eagan Parkrun.

An interview with Joshua Clover (author of Riot. Strike. Riot) on the biopolitical turn toward eco-nationalism

Nobody likes terrorists

Scott Warren was found not guilty at his re-trial last month.

Just learned about August Willich who once challenged Marx to a duel (apparently because he thought Marx was too conservative to be a leader of international communism) before traveling to America to fight as a Union general in the civil war.

I started reading about his disagreements with Marx, but got bored.

Good article, I hadn't seen this connection made before.

If someone were to make a movie about neoliberalism, there would need to be a starring role for the character of Paul Volcker. As chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, Volcker was the most powerful central banker in the world. These were the years when the industrial workers’ movement was defeated in the United States and the United Kingdom, and third-world debt crises exploded. Both of these owe something to Volcker

The only social policy the Russian state pursues consistently is the policy of atomization. The state dehumanizes us in one another’s eyes. In the state’s own eyes, we stopped being human a long time ago.