Tag: Anti-capitalism
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.
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.
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 anti-neoliberal politics as a solution to the liberal deadlock of narrowly political demands.
The Centrality of Reproduction and the Question of Labor Power
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Rebecca Carson’s Immanent Externalities, arguing that social reproduction politics demands a recentering of labor power.
We Keep Each Other Safe and Housed
Maga Miranda interviews the Rent Brigade’s Chelsea Kirk about tenant fightback against rent gouging in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.
Reactionary Decarbonization
Michael Levien challenges left arguments for CCS by pointing to its ecological and human costs. Why would the left support the fossil fuel industry?
Overshoot or Revolution?
Andrew Ahern reviews Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s Overshoot: What is the revolutionary alternative to the overshoot conjecture?