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Renewing Political Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Isabelle Garo’s recent “Communism and Strategy,” bringing it into conversation with Laclau, Mouffe, Althusser and other authors in and responding to the communist tradition.
The Urgency of Police Abolition
Acácio Augusto draws on Foucault to develop a perspective encompassing the police not only as a technology of control, but also as part of the subjective construct of contemporary citizenship, in other words, the ways of making, thinking, and imagining of the subject of today’s security democracy: the citizen-cop.
Review of Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy
Peter Hudis reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy
Resisting the Debt System
Ashley Smith interviews Éric Toussaint about the history of the debt system and its new crisis.
The Cape of Experience Tied around My Neck
With the prospect of freedom imminent, Ray Williams writes about memory and selfhood from a prison cell.
The Left Goes Nuclear
In a deep engagement with the politics of the ecomodernist left, Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Joshua Frank about the false promises of nuclear solutions to climate catastrophe.
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson explains how an analytic focus on time and temporalities might help us better understand how capitalism concretely conditions the work of life-making.
Review of Family Abolition
Alex Adamson reviews M.E. O’Brien’s book Family Abolition. What is the relationship between family abolition and the abolition of racial capitalism?
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Don’t Be Cruel
Corey Devon Arthur writes from a medium-security correctional facility in upstate New York.