Archives: Online Posts
On This Land We All Get Fed
Jacqui Germain reflects on the difficulties and tasks facing the leftist artist in a cultural space geared towards the political right.
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
Kwaneta Harris reflects on a justice system that pardons those who violently attack it, while refusing clemency to those it abuses.
One Should Not Camouflage Capitalist and Imperialist China as “Socialist”
Replying to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster, Michael Pröbsting argues that the People’s Republic of China is both capitalist and imperialist.
Trump, Fascism and the Authoritarian Turn
DK Renton looks to historic fascism to analyze the direction of Trump’s authoritarianism and for examples of a counterpolitics to fight it.
Tenant Organizing is Producing and Defending Territory
Expanding on the notion that transforming social relationships transforms space, Zara Cadoux examines Abolish Rent as both an organizing tool and a work of public geography.
A Tale of Two Ports
Phil Neel challenges the view of China as a challenger to US hegemony, arguing that hegemony produces the turbulent politics read as a sign of its demise.
From Policy as Technocratic Exercise to “Way Station of Tenant Power”
Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power,” rather than a technocratic adjustment to market realities.
Nationalism and Capitalism’s Ever-Spiraling Crisis
Through the lens of nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Wolfgang Streeck and Jamie Merchant’s respective responses to capitalist crisis. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?
Convivir, a Synonym for Commune?
Julian Francis Park examines Rosenthal and Vilchis’s Abolish Rentand Ross’s The Commune Form, arguing that both books anticipate the abolition of the distinction between rural and urban—that is, as Julian argues, they anticipate communism.
Neoliberal Georgia and the Challenges of the Antigovernment Protests
Giorgi Kartveshlishvili and Giorgi Khasaia argue for a robust anti-neoliberal politics as a solution to the liberal deadlock of narrowly political demands.