Tag: Politics
Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion
In a reading of Richard Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today’s far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insists, must respond with a politics of collective freedom rather than appeals to a return to neoliberal normalcy.
LA’s Left-Liberal Electoral Problem
Promise Li argues that Los Angeles’s left has grown stronger than ever, but without political independence, its electoral gains may never translate into working-class power.
Class Struggle in France in 2025
John Mullen analyzes the instability of French national politics and how Marxists and revolutionaries have the space to intervene in the France Insoumise.
The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
Ralf Ruckus interviews Yige Dong on the crisis of social reproduction in China, highlighting left feminisms and expanding women’s agency.
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat
Benjamin Balthaser explores the representation of Zohran Mamdani as simultaneously foreign menace and inauthentic outsider, deploying both antisemitism and Islamophobia to prop up a neatly racialized version of politics.
The Anti-Zionist Tradition of the US Jewish Left
Shane Burley’s review of Ben Balthaser’s Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left draws out the conditions of Jewish diasporic radicalism in the US, showing the roots of a now resurgent Jewish anti-Zionism.
Joint Statement by Independent Labor Organizations in Iran
Spectre statement regarding recent attacks on Iran followed by the Joint Statement by Independent Labor Organizations in Iran
Capitalist Politics in Crisis
Harris and the Democrats’ strategy of turning right and being the more effective Trump, especially on immigration, can help explain their resounding defeat.
Under Postfascism, Fractures in the State Will Make Openings for Protest
What does Trump’s election mean for the immediate future of social struggles?
The Antisemitism of Zionism
Shane Burley argues that Zionism has a long history of entrenching antisemitism and serves as a reactionary, radical sectionalist mode of politics that spells disaster for both Jews and humanity more broadly.