Tag: Anti-capitalism
Non-natalism
Leslie Root shows how misguided it is for the left to accept pro-natalist positions. Worry about declining birth rates is based on a misinterpretation of the Total Fertility Rate, and minor social policies promoting higher birth rates will be met with pyrrhic defeat, producing backlash against minorities. The left can rely on better demographic data, and debates on the issue should be informed by reproductive justice, family abolition, and feminism.
Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem
Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenge technocratic Abundance-style solutions to the New York “housing crisis” and argue for a militant movement with tenants as the protagonists.
Reckoning with the Alma Mater
Olive Demar and Eli Meyerhoff look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it.
Class Revenge Fanfiction
Tish Turl writes about the anticapitalist class politics of fanfiction.
The Abolitionist Labor Politics of California’s Incarcerated Firefighters
Reflecting on the use of incarcerated firefighters today, Abby Cunniff takes a historical look on the radical politics of their counterparts in the 1970s.
Lessons from the Air Canada Strike
John Clarke argues for a rank-and-file movement to break combat back-to-work legislation.
Fighting the Empire
Occasioned by the release of Andor, Jonathan Brown reflects on the class politics of the Star Wars media empire and capitalism’s cultural logic.
Queer Is Total, Baby!
Ira Hybris and Ricci Galiano argue that true communist revolution demands embracing the full diversity of the proletariat—queer, racialized, disabled, feminized and beyond—as essential to building a liberatory politics of totality that leaves no one behind.
What Everyone on the Left Should Know about Taiwan (at the Minimum)
Ralf Ruckus gives a historical primer for leftists interested in a critique of Taiwan’s capitalism and the nationalist claims coming from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
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.