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The Functionality of Traffic Congestion for Capitalism: Depoliticization, Dependency, and Accumulation

Despite its role in causing friction in social reproduction, Salvador Medina Ramírez argues that traffic actively reinforces capital accumulation by disciplining labor, creating new investment opportunities, and fostering automobile dependency.

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A Thesis on the History of the 21st Century: Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World

Reviewing a trio of books by a sextet of ruling-class ideologues, Mathias Fuelling finds an ambient anxiety hanging over a perceived crisis in American capitalism, with visions of bolstering a Silicon Valley-led technocracy fueled by AI investment reflecting American fears over the dawn of a "Chinese Century."

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We sit down to discuss Lars Lih's new book What was Bolshevism?

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Diagnosing the Populist Impasse: On Varn and Tutt’s "The People are Not One"

Reviewing C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt’s new pamphlet, The People are Not One, Nicolas D Villarreal finds a sharp contribution to a debate that may very well shape the future of socialism in our lifetime.

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Abolish Blue Power

Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.

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Letters: A Patrimonial Bonapartist Prediction for November

July 21, 2026

“A suitable framework should help us predict what will happen, not just explain what is happening now. Over the past year, I have argued that the Trump administration …”

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Letter: On Affection

July 17, 2026

“After reading both the Jacobin magazine interview with Meagen Day and Evelina Johansson Wilén on the topic of romantic love, capitalism and the family, as well as the …”

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Letter: Marxist State Theory Didn't End With Lenin

July 15, 2026

“It appears my recent article in this magazine has ruffled the feathers of those who wish to, on the one hand, vulgarize and flatten the work of Lenin, …”

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