Archives: Online Posts
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 itself 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 antineoliberal politics as a solution to the liberal deadlock of narrowly political demands.
Against Left Pronatalism
Robin Peterson takes on pronotalist arguments put forward by social democrats like Dustin Guastella.
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.
Lula in Historical and Political Context
Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais’s Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais’s focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.
H. Rap Brown, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Perils of Forgetting
susie day talks with Arun Kundnani about the unfortunately forgotten H. Rap Brown. Brown, now Imam Jamil Al-Amin, urgently needs medical care.