NEW: The Left once built big things. We can do it again.
Benjamin Fong’s opening editorial of our first print issue, “Building Big Things”: damagemag.com/2023/07/05/wha…
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The present moment is severely damaged and in need of some wide-ranging assessment. Submissions: [email protected]
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- You can see every white person as a “settler,” or you can believe in universalistic “hereness.” You can lean into culture war, or you can try to realign our politics around the class war. Bluntly: You can be a socialist, or you can be a liberal. But pick. damagemag.com/2024/07/30/lef…
- NEW in Damage: Benjamin Fong leading the charge toward a Socialist Minimalism. There is a path usually not taken... And that is simply to have no definite opinion about many issues that our media outlets tell us are very pressing.
- Amber A'Lee Frost on masks in the liberal shame economy damagemag.com/2020/05/14/im-…
- NEW: Ibram X. Kendi's antiracist project was designed as a multilevel marketing scheme for white guilt. It was never intended to uplift working-class black people and it obscures the kind of class analysis that could point in that direction. @J_Myles_TIR:
- NEW: the Left did a no growth. the Left did a capitalist realism. the Left did a technological determinism. @CaleBroooks on Degrowth’s flawed economics underlying its harmful politics: damagemag.com/2023/06/07/the…
- NEW: Marxist politics is about class struggle, not simply mobilizing identities and subjective orientations. @Matthuber78 on the latest crop of academics hostile to working class politics: damagemag.com/2023/06/21/pat…
- "The real content of all online politics is the internet itself, and the arc of online politics always bends towards a bunch of strangers who spend their entire lives on the computer demanding that you publicly denounce your friends." damagemag.com/2024/08/21/how…
- Print No 1: Amber A'Lee Frost Kay Rippelmeyer-Tippy Ted Boettner Megan Milliken Biven Dustin Guastella Fred Stafford Matt Huber Sam Kriss Taylor Hines Yakov Feygin Kevin Zhang George Hoare Christie Offenbacher Ben Fife Chris Crawford Christian Parenti Anton Jäger
- "Market preferences under capitalism aren’t a good indication of what we really want, because so many widely held commitments are the self-serving product of the power of an otherwise barely visible ruling class." OUT TODAY from @enzoreds damagemag.com/2025/02/25/soc…
- "Much of what is greeted as liberatory today may actually be a fetter on social progress." Dustin Guastella on anti-social socialism, out today
- "That such a book was lauded by so many sections of the left is a concerning display of the distance the left has travelled from the labour movement.... With friends like these, the labour movement hardly needs enemies."
- “The sexual revolution, as @bureaucatliu describes in Virtue Hoarders, ‘was a revolution that made orgasm and pleasure objects of PMC moral and pedagogical refinement.’” damagemag.com/2022/02/23/tom…
- The strategic question at the core of Harris’s book is left hanging: what is a political advantage in a strategy that centers groups which compromise 5-10 percent of the global population? @Matthuber78 on @BigMeanInternet's What's Left from @littlebrown. damagemag.com/2025/11/12/wha…
