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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.
Against Left Pronatalism
Neoliberalism enforces family responsibility with a cruel logic: a couple who can’t afford rent without both their incomes are a couple who stick together. A young adult who can’t afford college without student loans is a child who remains bound to her parent. Lack of public spending on public goods forces poor and working-class people into economic dependence on their relatives. Meanwhile, for the rich, the private family is reinforced as a main conduit for wealth transmission.
All Rights for All, Without Borders
Amidst the US governments’ attacks on migrants, Camilo Pérez-Bustillo argues for an anticolonial movement demanding all rights for all, without borders.