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I am an animal, too

One unseasonably hot day in the winter of 2022, I stepped through my door in Washington, DC, to the sound of birds screaming. At least that’s how I interpreted the racket in the trees. And I didn’t blame them. This weather must be driving the animals absolutely crazy, I thought. They can feel in th…

—p.213 What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis The Planetary Crisis (193) by Malcolm Harris
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in the mad light of unexpected fire

When they’re not hijacking capitalist tankers, communists often find themselves asking for sacrifices from people who have the least to sacrifice—it is not a social strategy that appeals to many people with the most, after all. While the other strategies rely on access to substantial flows of resou…

—p.183 Communism (137) by Malcolm Harris
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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 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