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Bruce Lee’s advice to Be like water has become a mantra of the protests in Hong Kong and, more recently, in places like Belarus. The idea is that demonstrations should flow freely and unpredictably, rather than according to some detailed plan implemented by a rigid hierarchy. As Jeffrey Wasserstrom shows in : , this metaphor is closely tied to Daoist thinking, and has longstanding cultural associations in China.

Margaret Sullivan is offering an opportunity to recalibrate our vision."

Google is accused of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a law passed in 1890 that makes it illegal to monopolize, or attempt to monopolize a market or industry.

Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of modern China at the University of California, Irvine, and author of : said protest movements around the world often borrow from one another. "Hong Kong activists adapted techniques used by protesters in many parts of the world and gave them local twists," Wasserstrom told DW. "Their actions are borrowed and transformed in places like Thailand." Wasserstrom said that strategies and symbols of protest circulate across borders, pointing to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States as providing models for Chinese protesters during the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

An explanation and evaluation for non-lawyers from author Tim Wu.

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An ideology thought to be long dead has taken hold as a broad movement among younger people dissatisfied with mainstream politics both on the Right and the Left, in America and around the world. From Karl Marx to Eduard Bernstein, Eugene Debs to Victor Berger, Bernie Sanders to Jeremy Corbyn, chronicles the rebirth of an idea driven by a rising anti-capitalist resentment among those looking to assert public power over the direction of private enterprise.

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom in Conversation with Nicholas Lemann from Columbia Global Reports https://lithub.com/on-the-frontlines-of-the-battle-for-dem/

Margaret Sullivan is offering an opportunity: to recalibrate our vision. To think of ‘the news’ not as so many Americans are conditioned to, as the stuff of Fox and CNN and The New York Times, but instead as an intimately local proposition.

"The rebirth of American socialism has come complete with any number of explanatory and exhortatory books, the best of which is , a brief, incisive volume by veteran political journalist and longtime democratic socialist, John B. Judis...Judis writes not merely as an anaylst of an ideology's return but as an advocate for its necessity, with particularly shrewd assessments of how the new American socialism can advance, and, alternatively, how it may marginalize itself into irrelevance....essential reading for progressives and socialists."