Archives: Online Posts
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat
Benjamin Balthasar explores the representation of Zohran Mamdani as simultaneously foreign menace and inauthentic outsider, deploying both antisemitism and Islamophobia to prop up a neatly racialized version of politics.
The Anti-Zionist Tradition of the US Jewish Left
Shane Burley’s review of Ben Balthaser’s Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left draws out the conditions of Jewish diasporic radicalism in the US, showing the roots of a now resurgent Jewish anti-Zionism.
Zionism, or Racism with(out) Borders
Rawan Abdelbaki and Rana Sukarieh argue that Zionism is a project of bordering that is both materially embedded in, and helps proliferate, global racial capitalism.
How Settler Colonies Fail
Richard Solomon reviews Lauchlan McNamee’s Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop, arguing that it’s analysis of the strategic calculus of settler colonialism gives inadequate weight to the actions of indigenes.
The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World”
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the “feed-the-world” approaches to feed security.
¡Ningún Ser Humano Es Ilegal! Resistiendo los Ataques Contra los Migrantes de Trump
Frente al resurgimiento del Trumpismo, un organizador de Vermont que lucha por los derechos de la comunidad migrante nos recuerda que la verdadera justicia nace de la solidaridad y la organización desde abajo.
Bodily Autonomy for All
Keegan O’Brien interviews the Gender Liberation Movement’s Eliel Cruz about fighting for queer liberation in the face of rightwing antitrans scapegoating.
The Continuing Relevance of Marx’s Capital
Charles Post reviews Sungur Savran and E. Ahmet Tonak, In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism.
Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning
Dan Berger reviews Chuck Schumer’s very bad, no good, awful book.
Queer Is Total, Baby!
Ira Hybris and Ricci Galiano argue that true communist revolution demands embracing the full diversity of the proletariat—queer, racialized, disabled, feminized and beyond—as essential to building a liberatory politics of totality that leaves no one behind.