“Horne doesn’t deny the Revolution and the Civil War mattered. He rather brings out their counter-revolutionary dimensions and remembers neglected episodes that may have been just as or more important in, for example, Texas. Though he doesn’t explicitly say so, his Gulf South–oriented U.S. history is a rejoinder to several varieties of north-south or east-west…
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“How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War”
“Far-right extremists are hijacking nationwide protests against racism to push for … a race war!”
“Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War”
‘Armed extremists are showing up to protests and urging a “boogaloo” — code for civil war — online.’
Serbulent Turan: “Is the United States on the brink of a revolution?”
“In the U.S., it’s clear the system is not working for the good of all. There are still numerous possibilities and different ways events can unfold. But unless these systemic failures are addressed soon, political scientists of the future will be explaining how a societal explosion in the U.S. became inevitable.”
Paul Saba: “Lessons from One Left to the Next: Max Elbaum’s ‘Revolution in the Air’ (2002) Reissued”
“Elbaum wrote Revolution in the Air in 2001 to reclaim the lessons of the new communist movement for contemporary militants who, like their early sixties’ predecessors, became activists when the radical left was fragmented and weak.”
The Far Right is Talking about a Second Civil War
“Far-right voices are frothing about a looming civil war” – ThinkProgress “Stop making second American Civil War clickbait” – Vox
Tom Cutterham: “Anarchy and the American Revolution”
“In short, anarchy seemed like a very real threat to the gentlemen who sought to lead America out of its revolution and into the sunlit uplands of a new, stable, republican society. It took the form not only of insurrection and potential dissolution of the union, but—more insidiously—of a breakdown in the relations of class…
Richard D. Brown: “‘Here we are all the same’”
“In 1776, Virginians took a radical step when they proclaimed that ‘all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion’. Nearly two and a half centuries later, the wisdom of their far-seeing ideal remains a challenge for Americans.”
“11 Memoirs by 20th-Century American Radicals”
“Each movement produced its share of minutes and manifestoes. But then there are also the personal stories: the individual lives and journeys undergirding the cause. For those who prefer their radical history first-hand, the 20th century provides in abundance, from the anarchist riots and unionist shutdowns of the early century to the interwar New York…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks about his book _ From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation_ (2016)
“A better world is possible. It’s called socialism and it will require a multiracial working-class rebellion organized on the principles of solidarity and with anti-racism at its core. We have to fight like we’ve never fought before. Our lives and the planet depend on it.”