Tag: Capitalism
We’re on Our Own
Holly Lewis and Snehal Shingavi argue that what happened in Texas is not an example of capitalism in crisis, but rather an example of the system at work.
Radical Hamilton
Christian Parenti responds to Robert Ovetz’s critique of his new book Radical Hamilton.
“We Fought and We Won”: Teacher Organizing in Philadelphia
Rhiannon Maton interviews a member of the Caucus of Working Educators in Philly about how the caucus has fought for safe schools and a safe workplace during the pandemic.
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
Hegemony Is Not Repression: A Conversation on Christopher Chitty’s Work
M. Buna interviews Max Fox, who edited Christopher Chitty’s posthumous book Sexual Hegemony, released last year on Duke University Press.
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.
An Unfinished Epoch of Revolution
Joseph Daher takes stock of the Arab Spring ten 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
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.