Tag: 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.
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?
Why China Isn’t Capitalist (Despite the Pink Ferraris)
Contra Eli Friedman, Richard Smith argues that China is not capitalist.
Why China Is Capitalist
Eli Friedman argues that, as of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state complete with its own settler colonial projects. Friedman argues China’s economy is characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
Notes Toward a More Global History of Capitalism
Andrew Liu explains his new book on the development of capitalism in India and China in relation to his reading of Marx’s Capital. It is the concept of value, he argues, that allows us to fully realize what is novel about capitalist production.
Life versus Capital
Nicholas De Genova asks how the pandemic forces us to rethink the relations among capital, state power, and human life?
Fifteen Notes on Sixty Days of Pandemic and Economic Depression in Brazil
Valério Arcary, Brazilian historian and PSOL militant, puts forward fifteen theses on the limits and opportunities in a conjuncture marked by multiple nested crises in his country
Infectious Optimism
Dan Boscov-Ellen writes about the limits of reform to stave off climate change, and proposes radical alternatives.
Salt in the Wound
Juan Grigera asks how we should understand the crises emerging from Covid-19?