What Is to be Done About Work?
A review of three important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form, including questions related to job satisfaction, inadequate compensation, long hours, and morally injurious employment.
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Capitalism | China | Economy | Online Blog | World Economy | World Politics
China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles
With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. However, the Chinese are acutely aware that with Western investment comes inequality. This interview examines the steps Beijing is beginning to take to tackle this.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | People's movements | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Nepal’s People Resist U.S. Anti-China Alliance
Continuous protests shook the length and breadth of mountainous Nepal in September as the U.S. pushed again to chain this Asian country of 28 million people to its anti-China alliance through the Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC).
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The Politician-Scholar: Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery
Eric Williams’ groundbreaking ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ placed slavery at the heart of the rise of capitalism and the British Empire. But in his subsequent career as a politician – he became the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago – Williams was hardly seen as an avatar of radicalism.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
In an age when violence turns into a spectacle, mass shootings become normalized, and violence becomes the primary language of politics, it becomes all the more difficult and yet necessary to remember the horror and legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Capitalism | Culture | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | Socialism | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Robbing the Soil – Part 2: Systematic Theft of Communal Property
The second part of this series discusses how in two great waves of social change, landlords and capitalist farmers conquered the field for capitalist agriculture, incorporated the soil into capital, and created for the urban industries the necessary supplies of free and rightless proletarians.
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Remembering Occupy Wall Street 10 Years Later: The Movement Moment that Revived the U.S. Left
Ten years ago this fall a protest movement took root in Lower Manhattan that transformed how we think about inequality and reinvigorated the Left.
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Defending the Legacy of Chile’s 2019 Uprising
The social movement left is having an outsized impact on Chile’s Constitutional Convention — combined with pressure from the streets, another Chile is possible.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Wendell Berry on Capitalism, Advertising, Greed, and the Good Life
“We live in a time when technologies and ideas are adopted in response not to need but to advertising, salesmanship, and fashion. The first duty of writers who wish to be of any use even to themselves is to resist the language and the ideas of sales talk, no matter from whose mouth it issues.”
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Food and the Struggle for Africa’s Sovereignty
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the stark reality of Africa’s extreme dependence on imports to feed our populations.
