Tag: Capitalism
The Postcolonial Autumn
The old regime of the Green Revolution is dying, while a new, more baleful, cycle of agrarian capitalism is waiting to be born. In this interregnum, there has emerged a spectacular groundswell of anti-capitalist resistance by farmers and agrarian workers.
An Unfinished Epoch of Revolution
Joseph Daher takes stock of the Arab Spring 10 years later.
Snatching Victory
Jasson Perez argues that the rise of authoritarianism is a global phenomenon. When the US left takes an American exceptionalist approach, this sets us back in our quest to defeat neoliberalism, the insurgent right, fascism, and authoritarianism.
Speculating on Race
Before we romanticize the age of the welfare state, it’s worth remembering how the policies of those decades are less an alternative to than a historical basis for today’s landscape of racial exclusion.
What’s New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t)
“Woke” racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.
Materializing Race
Jack Norton and David Stein respond to John Clegg and Adaner Usmani’s argument that mass incarceration isn’t a product of racism. The authors’ argument, they demonstrate, is both conceptually misguided and empirically wrong.
Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a Capitalist Virus
Rob Wallace speaks about the global capitalist roots of the current pandemic, the likelihood of future pandemics, and the types of organized resistance necessary to prevent them.
Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy
An epidemiologist responds to two Harvard researchers who called for socialists to oppose lockdowns in the name of workers’ lives. But their argument, Michael Friedman insists, puts us all at risk – above all, workers.
Right-Wing Suicide in the U.S. Today
How should we understand the irrationalism of American rightists today? What to make of their seeming enthusiasm for the death drive?
Why China Isn’t Capitalist (Despite the Pink Ferraris)
Richard Smith argues, contra Eli Friedman, that China is not capitalist by a long shot.