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Marx’s Republican Communism
Søren Mau reviews Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx, arguing that Leipold’s masterful contextualization of Marx in the republican tradition could be enriched by a deeper engagement with the labor theory of value.
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“Are Women Weak Jews?”
Sophie Lewis looks back on Scapegoat to reassess the Andrea Dworkin’s legacy, concluding that the current Dworkin revival is a “terrible idea.”
The Broken Clock
Joshua Nicholas Pineda reviews Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism.
Trump, Protectionism, and Imperial Conflict in Global Capitalism
Ashley Smith talks to Michael Roberts about the strategy of Trump’s tariffs, their likely outcomes, and what international labor must do to respond to them.
Against Bad Arguments for Terrible Things
Holly Lewis takes a sledgehammer to John Rees’s attempt to Marx-wash antitrans bigotry.
Serving Somebody
Cutting through A Complete Unknown’s apolitical individualist myth of Bob Dylan, Jordy Cummings puts Dylan back in the sixties to find the left’s Dylan.
Queer Politics and Class War
Dani Joslyn critically reviews Joanna Wuest’s recent book on queer politics, which reproduces the social democratic opposition between social movements to union politics.
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.