Joshua Clover

But you have deeper causes with the racial police violence, and deeper causes still of the worsening economic conditions that require management of the surplus population by the police.

I wanted to just plug this book, Joshua Clover's Riot Strike Riot.

It's not written in an accessible way, but it's really good at making sense of the riot as a political phenomenon and as almost like a revolutionary phenomenon.

And what I...

Like, the-- this is invaluable in terms of, like, conceptualizing the riot, and I wrote about this in the newsletter.

So Joshua Clover says, "In the first instance, riot is the setting of prices for market goods, while strike is the setting of prices for labor power." And so you have, in history, the bread riot, circulation of, of bread, food, whatever.

The price being unacceptable, the people are squeezed too much by their economic conditions, and so they can't afford it.

And then you have the race riot, like the LA riots.