Tag: Social Democracy
Against Left Pronatalism
Neoliberalism enforces family responsibility with a cruel logic: a couple who can’t afford rent without both their incomes are a couple who stick together. A young adult who can’t afford college without student loans is a child who remains bound to her parent. Lack of public spending on public goods forces poor and working-class people into economic dependence on their relatives. Meanwhile, for the rich, the private family is reinforced as a main conduit for wealth transmission.
Lula in Historical and Political Context
Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais’s Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais’s focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.
Infectious Optimism
Dan Boscov-Ellen writes about the limits of reform to stave off climate change, and proposes radical alternatives.
Leninism?
What should we understand today by the term “Leninism”? How much of it actually derives from Lenin’s theoretical output, or must we examine his actual political practice instead?
Let the Haunting Begin!
The era of “there is no alternative” to capital’s rule is behind us, but what lies ahead?