Archives: Online Posts
Varieties of White Nationalism
Shane Burley looks at Richard Spencer’s rebranding effort to illuminate the movement dynamics and political impasses of the “dissident” right.
Reckoning with the Alma Mater
Olive Demar and Eli Meyerhoff look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it.
In the Belly of the Beast
Aaron Boehmer reflects on the aesthetics of war and empire in relation to Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan.
After the Last Word
Ryan Breeden reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,” arguing that the book is a valuable step in an ongoing march of theoretical contestation.
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future
Cihan Tuğal looks at the interplay between HTS’s movement dynamics and capitalist geopolitics to analyze the prospects for Syria’s future.
Class Struggle in France in 2025
John Mullen analyzes the instability of French national politics and how Marxists and revolutionaries have the space to intervene in the France Insoumise.
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women’s agency.
China’s Other Crisis
The People’s Republic of China has been hit by capitalism’s historical tendency toward fertility decline, a result of both increasing economic burdens on the proletariat and women’s resistance. So far, women have withstood the pressures from the Chinese Communist Party regime to give up their birth strike and bear more children.
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time”
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.