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Tucker Carlson’s Pilgrimage to Hungary
Anita Zsurzsan analyzes how Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary is boosts both the US and the Hungarian far right.
Carceral Histories of Disability
Using disability as. alens, Keith Rosenthal analyzes the continuity between institutionalized asylums and the prison systems of today.
Marxism and Imperialism
Part Two of a two-part dialogue between Critical China Scholars and Spectre.
To Save the World
Huey Hewitt argues that Afropessimism is antithetical to the politics of friendship necessary for any serious project of Black liberation.
Critical Limits of the “New” History of Capitalism
James Parisot critically engages Jonathan Levy’s new history of American capitalism and interrogates the politics of the so-called “new history of capitalism”?
China and the US Left
Part One in a dialogue between Critical China Scholars and Spectre editors.
Israel’s Antisemitism Ruse
Daniel Freeman-Malloy argues that we are starting to the settler colonial logic behind the ruse of Israel’s claims to victimhood.
Rethinking Japan’s Red Years
Gavin Walker discusses the history and state of Marxist theory in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present day.
Out of Lockdown and Back into the Long Depression
Ashley Smith interviews Marxist economist Michael Roberts about the deeper reasons for capitalism’s contemporary malaise, the shape and contradictions of the recovery, and debates between Marxists and Keynesians about the ability of government spending to restore growth and profitability to capitalism.