{"product_id":"good-cop-radicals-how-the-university-nonprofits-make-counterinsurgents-out-of-middle-class-leftists","title":"Good Cop Radicals: How the University \u0026 Nonprofits Make Counterinsurgents out of Middle Class Leftists","description":"\u003cp\u003eRitornant\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6\/2026, 5.75” x 8.25” 48-page booklet, riso printed in Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: n\/a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-feature-settings: normal;\"\u003eThe ruling class, and the police and military strategists that serve them, prefer the type of social movements orbiting nonprofit funding and academic career tracks to those rooted in the fighting capacity and care networks of the working and ‘surplus’ classes. Why is it that this ‘movement middle class’ of social workers, lawyers, nonprofit coordinators, teachers and professors, have have learned to disregard and fear working class autonomy and revolt, and, rather than fuel it, manage it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; min-height: 16.7px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: system-ui; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-feature-settings: normal;\"\u003e‘Good Cop Radicals’ argues this is a predictable outcome of ‘counterinsurgency’ – the police and military ‘science’ of movement repression – in which counterrevolutionaries seek to create a ‘pacified’ block, more invested in the continued existence of racial capitalism, who moderate movements in return for minor concessions. The zine calls for the mass defection of ‘respectable protestors’ from ‘movement middle management,’ in favour of an insurgent solidarity with the ‘criminal elements,’ and for the redistribution of money, accountability and risk \u003cspan style=\"font-family: system-ui;\"\u003ewith the excluded classes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54164946288923,"sku":"Good Cop Radicals","price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/IMG_5976.jpg?v=1791473782","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/good-cop-radicals-how-the-university-nonprofits-make-counterinsurgents-out-of-middle-class-leftists","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}