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Russia in Global Competition
Against ahistorical and unscientific pseudo-explanations of Russia’s foreign policy as some consequence of “the Russian psyche,” Jase Short explains how neoliberal “reforms” in Russia have suppressed democracy domestically and driven that nation’s rise as a competitor attempting to beat U.S. capital at its own game. What’s wrong with Russia, Short argues, is that capitalism and democracy cannot coexist there—just as they cannot coexist anywhere.
Commemorating 75 Years of Nakba
On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, Amanda Batarseh explores the works of Palestinian writers Mourid Barghouti and Radwa Ashour.
The Political Social Ontology of Astrology
Astrology has regained prominence as a resistance practice that challenges capitalist modernity. Matthew Cull and Nadia Mehdi ask: How might forms of thought inherent to astrological practice render us more susceptible to capitalist control, not less?
Panem et Circenses
Beliu García Parra reports from the front lines of the public healthcare crisis in Spain.
Stand Up and Fight for, and Alongside, Your Trans Siblings
Danelle Wylder’s expanded speech from Chicago’s Trans Day of Resistance.
On “Being Serious About Ideas”
William Clare Roberts responds to Landon Frim’s and Harrison Fluss’s argument, printed previously in these pages, that Marxist political strategy requires theoretical grounding in dialectical monism.
The New Anti-Dreyfusards
Benjamin Balthaser argues that Antony Lerman’s recent book on state antisemitism fails to develop a theory of antisemitism for the current moment.
Materialism and the Crisis of Marxism
What philosophical form corresponds to mass struggles? Arguing against a monistic Marxism, Darren Rosso continues the debate.
Family Abolition
Colin Wilson on Sophie Lewis and the politics of family abolition