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Violence and the Left | The Point Magazine

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Is now really the right time to talk about the left’s political violence problem? Graduate students are being disappeared off the streets of college towns. American-made bombs have killed numbers of Gazan children greater than the circulations of n+1 and Jewish Currents combined. The far right is triumphant across the world and already turning the levers of state power against the under-documented and the overeducated. Against this background, it seems risible to turn back to what Adam Shatz has called “the ethno-tribalist fantasies of the decolonial left, with their Fanon recitations and posters of paragliders.” Febrile delusions of nativists and reactionaries aside, the left’s fascination with violence, its Mangione memes and Sinwar graffiti, appears to have few real-life consequences outside the hurt feelings of some undergraduates and the ruffled feathers of those business and cultural figures who seem glad of the excuse to be able to finally defect to the rampant right. And yet I

Is now really the right time to talk about the left’s political violence problem? Graduate students are being disappeared off the streets of college towns. American-made bombs have killed numbers of Gazan children greater than the circulations of n+1 and Jewish Currents combined. The far right is triumphant across the world and already turning the levers of state power against the under-documented and the overeducated. Against this background, it seems risible to turn back to what Adam Shatz has called “the ethno-tribalist fantasies of the decolonial left, with their Fanon recitations and post

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