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Bukharin in Beijing?, Part 2: China and State Capitalism

In part two of a two-part series, Gabriel Salter argues that it is Bukharin's theory of state capitalism, not his prescriptions for socialist transition, that describes the trajectory of contemporary China. Read part one here.

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The Kahane Connection: A Review of "Who Killed Alex Odeh?"

In a review of Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans 2026 documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh, Tovi Rose traces how Meir Kahane's militant Jewish supremacist ideology became mainstream in Israel.

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We trace the multi-faceted history of the Kurdish movement across the Middle East.

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Against Their Interests? Understanding the Right-Wing Poor

Marcela Gottschald reviews Brazilian sociologist Jessé Souza’s O pobre de direita (The Poor on the Right), an inquiry into the social basis of support for right-wing politics among poor whites and Black evangelicals in Brazil.

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Points of Arrival

Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class …

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Letter: Meaning, Machines, and Activity

November 11, 2026

“Peter Ross's letter, "Mystifying Marx in the Age of AI,” responds to Nicolas D. Villarreal's October 22nd essay, "Marxism in the Age of AI,” in terms of value …”

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Letter: Iran War was the Issue, Leadership is the Same

November 9, 2026

“Democrats won both chambers of Congress, flipping Senate seats in Texas, Kansas, Ohio, South Carolina, Iowa, and Maine and gaining roughly 25-30 House seats. Multiple analyses and exit …”

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Letter: From "Vibe Coding" to "Auf Einmal"

November 5, 2026

“Nicolas D. Villarreal’s "Marxism in the Age of AI" rightly brings our attention back to Marx’s 1857–1858 Grundrisse ("Fragment on Machines"), where fixed capital absorbs the "general intellect" …”

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