Join or Die: The Civil War in Minnesota

by T. E. Moon

In his latest, Moon argues that the federal occupation of Minneapolis represents a decisive escalation in American authoritarianism. Tracing a lineage from the killings of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile through the George Floyd uprising and into the current ICE raids, T.E. Moon contends that liberal reform repeatedly neutralized proletarian resistance—creating the conditions for today’s siege while, at the same time, sharply criticizing left-communist refusals of mass politics and their abstractions about “pure” class struggle.