Letter: Subject-less Marxism, A Reply to Kolya Ludwig
According to Kolya Ludwig’s letter “Retreating from the Subject,” my critique of Slavoj Žižek dispenses with his “political conclusions without addressing the deeper problem of …
Month: June 2024
Eco-Leninism: A Much Needed Corrective
Martin Rose argues that Lenin’s classic political strategy offers an alternative to the economism which plagues both sides of the debate around ‘degrowth.’ Within the …
The New Thing: Jazz Music in the Cold War, 1950-1970 with Christian Noakes
Jackson and Donald are joined by Christian Noakes author of Do It Yourself, Brother: Cultural Autonomy and the New Thing to discuss jazz music and …
Escaping America’s Constitutional Bind: A Review of Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind”
Luke Pickrell reviews Aziz Rana’s recent book, “The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.” Introduction At a private gathering last …
Galeano in Mogadishu: Sheep and the Emergent Geography of Gulf Capitalisms
Adapting radical Latin American theories of economic geography, Jaime Litvak argues that a regionally-centered, extractive economic subsystem links the Arab Gulf and northeast Africa. Introduction …
Against Frum on Woodrow Wilson
Hank Kennedy sets the record straight on Woodrow Wilson’s legacy – one of service to the imperialist capitalist class abroad and brutal and racist repression …
Letter: Retreating from the Subject, A Reply to Yanis Iqbal
Yanis Iqbal’s recent critique of Slavoj Žižek’s theoretical and political project illuminates two matters of concern: The political content that emerges from Žižek’s psychoanalysis and …
Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Working-Class Culture and Red Vienna with Gabriel Kuhn
We join Gabriel Kuhn, author of books like Soccer vs. the State and Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a militant working-class culture for a discussion on …