Archives: Online Posts
Street Art, Place-Making, and Anti-Capitalist Spatial Activism
Quill Kukla asks, “How can spatial activists in Berlin resist this subverting commodification of their cause, and how in particular can street art play a role in this resistance?”
From the Socialism of Fools to Social Democracy in One Country
Jordy Cummings writes about the emergent phenomenon of social democratic intellectuals appearing on right-wing terrain. Does this indicate a burgeoning red/brown alliance?
To End Police Violence, End Racial Capitalism
Peter Ikeler demolishes Dustin Guastella’s recent article arguing that socialists should oppose the defunding of police. Against this reactionary nonsense, he advocates a properly socialist and abolitionist politics.
Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
Why China Is Capitalist
As of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state, complete with its own settler colonial projects and characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking anti-racist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”