[_alxk]

That's not what I understood from this passage:

> Late capitalism is certainly bad enough, with its explosive cocktail of climate change, inequality, police brutality and the deadly pandemic.

To me this says "we're at the late capitalism stage, and we're dealing with a cocktail of ..."

Regarding police brutality specifically, it's not hard for me to believe that's a symptom of what they're labelling neo-feudalism. Police aren't going around beating up the ruling class. There's probably a direct correlation between where you are on the social ladder and your chances of being a victim of police brutality. That's what you'd expect of a feudal society.

[NovemberWhiskey]

Your reading seems to omit the possessive intent of "its".

[civilized]

I think the sentence is just sloppy and the author himself doesn't quite know if he's talking about characteristics of late capitalism or just current events which happen to be occurring in the context of late capitalism.

[drewcoo]

It's not sloppy. It's quite easy to understand. Let's substitute some metasyntactic variables . . .

> Foo is bar, with its baz.

Clearly baz is an example of how foo is bar.

https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/subordinate_clause....