from Phil Neel’s Hinterlands book, I kinda got the impression that a good venue for class conflict (as opposed to downtown city cores, where empty, non-functional temples to the FIRE economy are resistant to protest by design… nothing physical needs to happen there, nothing is disrupted, protest is symbolic), are the logistics infrastructures… the warehouses/fulfillment centers, the freight rail switching stations, etc. just outside of big cities, these are the places where many workers find themselves, abused but in great numbers compared to capitalists and cops… and strikes have immediate consequences to capital formations in paralysis.
he doesn’t say this explicitly, but it seems clear that the strategy must adapt to the transformed geography of class conflict in the 21st century.
The chapter on the Fergesun protests/riots was really fascinating. Big cities like Paris and London were designed specifically to make it easier for police to fuck up protestors, but nobody ever saw unrest coming to the suburbs.
I liked the book but I felt it was written backwards, I couldn’t figure out his angle until he got to the big picture stuff towards the end.
from Phil Neel’s Hinterlands book, I kinda got the impression that a good venue for class conflict (as opposed to downtown city cores, where empty, non-functional temples to the FIRE economy are resistant to protest by design… nothing physical needs to happen there, nothing is disrupted, protest is symbolic), are the logistics infrastructures… the warehouses/fulfillment centers, the freight rail switching stations, etc. just outside of big cities, these are the places where many workers find themselves, abused but in great numbers compared to capitalists and cops… and strikes have immediate consequences to capital formations in paralysis.
he doesn’t say this explicitly, but it seems clear that the strategy must adapt to the transformed geography of class conflict in the 21st century.
The chapter on the Fergesun protests/riots was really fascinating. Big cities like Paris and London were designed specifically to make it easier for police to fuck up protestors, but nobody ever saw unrest coming to the suburbs.
I liked the book but I felt it was written backwards, I couldn’t figure out his angle until he got to the big picture stuff towards the end.
Paris was first rebuilt to make crackdowns easier in mid-19th century by baron Haussmann.