Tag: Capitalism
Rethinking Japan’s Red Years
Gavin Walker discusses the history and state of Marxist theory in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present day.
The Intersections and Divergences of Disability and Race
Keith Rosenthal asks what the longes sit-in ever to take place in a federal building can teach us about the intersection of racism and ableism?
We’re on Our Own
Holly Lewis and Snehal Shingavi argue that what happened in Texas is not an example of capitalism in crisis, but rather an example of the system at work.
Radical Hamilton
Christian Parenti responds to Robert Ovetz’s critique of his new book Radical Hamilton.
“We Fought and We Won”: Teacher Organizing in Philadelphia
Rhiannon Maton interviews a member of the Caucus of Working Educators in Philly about how the caucus has fought for safe schools and a safe workplace during the pandemic.
Just Imagine, My Dear, It Won’t Be Painless
Jeffery R. Webber writes about Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s recently translated Booker Prize-nominated novel The Adventures of China Iron.”
Keep the Streets: Coup, Crisis, and Capital in Myanmar
Geoffrey Aung discusses this month’s coup in Myanmar, the class composition of popular resistance, and how these events fit into a longer trajectory of capitalist transition.
Hegemony Is Not Repression: A Conversation on Christopher Chitty’s Work
M. Buna interviews Max Fox, who edited Christopher Chitty’s posthumous book Sexual Hegemony, released last year on Duke University Press.
The Postcolonial Autumn
The old regime of the Green Revolution is dying, while a new, more baleful, cycle of agrarian capitalism is waiting to be born. Aditya Bahl looks at the spectacular groundswell of anticapitalist resistance by farmers and agrarian workers that has emerged in this interregnum.
An Unfinished Epoch of Revolution
Joseph Daher takes stock of the Arab Spring ten years later.