Archives: Online Posts
The Persistence of Global Capitalism’s Long Depression
Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about the Long Depression and its role in driving political polarization and imperial rivalry.
On Economic Compulsion
Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter review Werner Bonefeld’s new book on the social constitution of economic compulsion in capitalism.
Black Reconstruction in Palestine
What abolition, reconstruction, and decolonization teach us about how Palestinian liberation means the liberation of all.
I Forgot to Die
Tithi Bhattacharya uses Social Reproduction Theory to think Palestinians’ irrepressible creative flourishing beyond Israel’s assaults on life and lifemaking.
Review of The Exhausted of the Earth
David Camfield reviews of Ajay Singh Chaudhary’s book The Exhausted of the Earth. How can ecosocialism defeat right-wing climate realism?
The Isolation Diary
Demetrius Buckley meditates on the experience of being on hunger strike in the hole.
“Bidenomics” in the International Context
This is the first in a series of articles providing a snapshot of the geopolitical moment from a Marxist perspective. Thomas Hummel analyzes the shift toward escalating conflict between the U.S. and China, and examines the possible outcomes in terms of the global balance of power, the possibilities or difficulties for working class organizing, and the chances of inter-imperialist war. Over the course of the series, Hummel will examine whether this shift is likely to be the basis of a new regime of accumulation or a short blip on the radar—that is, an attempt to engineer something for which there is no material basis in reality.
Scholars Against the War on Palestine
Scholars Against the War on Palestine call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Social Reproduction Theory and Disability
What then might those committed to social reproduction theory as a mode of concretizing Marxism be able to say regarding “disability”?
Toward Decolonization: The Struggle for Palestine Today
Ashley Smith interviews Tareq Baconi on Israel’s war on Gaza, Hamas’s strategy, and the future of Palestinian resistance.