Jess’s Reviews > The Dialectics of Liberation > Status Update

Carmichael/Ture - "the resistance to doing anything meaningful about institutionalized racism stems from the fact that western society enjoys its luxury from institutionalized racism, and therefore, were it to end institutionalized racism, it would in fact destroy itself"

Goldmann -- of course the literary analysis chapter is the most dense for no reason 😂 I wouldn't say that there's anything particularly new here but I think I need to reread it to be sure. I will say that his predictions for the future are so far By Far the most accurate. When he was talking about the McDonaldization of higher ed fifty years before the term was even invented? Boy howdy.

Goodman - provoking ideas that would make me want to read more by him but his anti-Blackness is yikes level

Sweezy - his observation of reality is helpful in making the obvious visible but wow his predictions for the future were so off

Jules - selling fear in exchange for docility

Bateson - Malthusianism but make it groovy

Laing - awesome and inspiring and makes me rethink some things about advocacy work