Tag: Capitalism
The Child Catcher
Incarcerated writer Elizabeth Hawes analyzes the child separation crisis plaguing the US prison-industrial complex.
On Profitability and Reforming Capitalism
Michael Roberts responds to Seth Ackerman’s sprawling critique of Robert Brenner.
Syria’s Protest Movement
Joseph Daher analyzes the causes, scope, strategy, and possible growth of the ongoing regime protest movement in Syria.
On the Economic Power of Capital
Hugo de Camps interviews Søren Mau on his new book Mute Compulsion, a groundbreaking new reading of Marx’s theory of economic power.
Mental Illness and Capitalism
David Matthews problematizes biological conceptualizations of mental illness under capitalism and outlines a dialectical, historical Marxist approach.
Neither Productivism nor Degrowth
Ståle Holgersen moves us beyond the stale impasse between degrowth and eco-modernist approaches to eco-socialist strategy.
Bathrooms
While incarcerated, Heather Jarvis reflects on bathrooms as formative scenes.
The Cape of Experience Tied around My Neck
With the prospect of freedom imminent, Ray Williams writes about memory and selfhood from a prison cell.
Marching to a Different Drummer
Susan Ferguson explains how an analytic focus on time and temporalities might help us better understand how capitalism concretely conditions the work of life-making.
Crisis, Rivalry, and the Fragmentation of Global Capitalism
Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about the system’s seemingly intractable crisis, the looming threat of war between great powers, and the desperate need for international working-class solidarity against militarism.