Tag: Capitalism
Materializing Race
Jack Norton and David Stein respond to John Clegg and Adaner Usmani’s argument that mass incarceration isn’t about racism. Norton and Stein demonstrate that Clegg and Usmani are both conceptually misguided and empirically wrong.
Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a Capitalist Virus
Rob Wallace speaks about the global capitalist roots of the current pandemic, the likelihood of future pandemics, and the types of organized resistance necessary to prevent them.
Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy
Epidemiologist Michael Friedman responds to two Harvard researchers who called for socialists to oppose lockdowns in the name of workers’ lives. But their argument, Friedman insists, puts us all at risk—above all, workers.
Right-Wing Suicide in the United States Today
Sam Farber asks how we should understand the irrationalism of American rightists today? What to make of their seeming enthusiasm for the death drive?
Why China Isn’t Capitalist (Despite the Pink Ferraris)
Contra Eli Friedman, Richard Smith argues that China is not capitalist.
Why China Is Capitalist
Eli Friedman argues that, as of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state complete with its own settler colonial projects. Friedman argues China’s economy is characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.
Notes Toward a More Global History of Capitalism
Andrew Liu explains his new book on the development of capitalism in India and China in relation to his reading of Marx’s Capital. It is the concept of value, he argues, that allows us to fully realize what is novel about capitalist production.
Life versus Capital
Nicholas De Genova asks how the pandemic forces us to rethink the relations among capital, state power, and human life?
Fifteen Notes on Sixty Days of Pandemic and Economic Depression in Brazil
Valério Arcary, Brazilian historian and PSOL militant, puts forward fifteen theses on the limits and opportunities in a conjuncture marked by multiple nested crises in his country