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that does not mean all consequences are justified

In the arson’s wake, an anarchist collective associated with the movement—the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (in English)—released a pamphlet attempting to reckon with the deaths. “And Death Will No Longer Have Any Power: Concerning the Fire in the Marfin Bank” is a thoroughly unsatisfactory document.…

—p.177 What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis Communism (137) by Malcolm Harris
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capital’s particular personnel aren’t the real problem

There remains, even among the most extreme twenty-first-century communists, a strong taboo against targeting human beings for violence or negligently exposing them to harm. In my estimation, this is a product of a combination of factors that include, in addition to widespread moral humanism, a theo…

—p.171 Communism (137) by Malcolm Harris
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up to your chin in the shit

The police are capital’s impersonalized trigger finger, pulling on a gun pointed across borders, across property lines, across classes, and across races. They are the status quo’s heavily armed militia, designed to insulate the ruling class from popular pressure, and thus they constitute the most d…

—p.167 Communism (137) by Malcolm Harris
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the capitalist world is split by metabolic rifts

From the communist perspective, the capitalist world is split by metabolic rifts. In addition to being unsustainable on a planet with a relatively finite number of atoms, accumulative, exploitative, and extractive practices generate pathological inequality. Rifts emerge everywhere—between cities th…

—p.141 Communism (137) by Malcolm Harris
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crypto can “reignite” disinvested communities

That there’s still work to be done is dramatically clear in New York State, where public-power advocates got their win with the Build Public Renewables Act. While strategists in the Democratic Socialists of America plan for the state’s public power workers to grab hold of the planning function and …

—p.135 Public Power (85) by Malcolm Harris