Tag: Capitalism

Agrarian question

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. Aditya Bahl looks at the spectacular groundswell of anticapitalist resistance by farmers and agrarian workers that has emerged in this interregnum.

Capitalism

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.

Capitalism

Speculating on Race

Samantha Iyer warns against the romanticization of the age of the welfare state, arguing that the policies of those decades were a historical basis—rather than an alternative—to today’s landscape of racial exclusion.

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Anti-capitalism

What’s New about Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Enzo Rossi explain how “woke” racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.

abolition

Materializing Race

Jack Norton and David Stein respond to John Clegg and Adaner Usmani’s argument that mass incarceration isn’t about racism. Norton and Stein demonstrate that Clegg and Usmani are both conceptually misguided and empirically wrong.

Anti-capitalism

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.

Anti-capitalism

Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy

Epidemiologist Michael Friedman responds to two Harvard researchers who called for socialists to oppose lockdowns in the name of workers’ lives. But their argument, Friedman insists, puts us all at risk—above all, workers.

Capitalism

Right-Wing Suicide in the United States Today

Sam Farber asks how we should understand the irrationalism of American rightists today? What to make of their seeming enthusiasm for the death drive?

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