Archives: Online Posts
Mental Illness and Capitalism
David Matthews problematizes biological conceptualizations of mental illness under capitalism and outlines a dialectical, historical Marxist approach.
A Return on Our Investment
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine was established two hundred years ago. US-promoted border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention’s newest evolution.
Neither Productivism nor Degrowth
Ståle Holgersen moves us beyond the stale impasse between degrowth and eco-modernist approaches to eco-socialist strategy.
Bathrooms
While incarcerated, Heather Jarvis reflects on bathrooms as formative scenes.
Burning Out of Control
John Clarke explains how Canada’s forest fires are both caused by and contribute to climate change and its socially unequal and widespread effects.
Marxism and the US Response to the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Pandemics
Sam Friedman and Suzie Kay dive deep into the roots of and parallels between the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 pandemics, arguing that we should respond to public health emergencies by building communities of care.
Popular Protest and Labor Insurgency in Iran
Shirin Kamangar analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle.
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
Camila Valle writes about the life and resistance of Shuhada’ Sadaqat/Sinéad O’Connor and the forces that shaped her, from colonialism to the Catholic Church.
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.