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On the Modern Problems of The Great Transformation: Rescuing Polanyi from the Academic Ivory Tower

Bringing Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation into the age of information technology, Benjamin Marshall argues that platform capitalism has disembedded data into a "fourth fictitious commodity", atomizing the proletariat and fragmenting class struggle.

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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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We rejoin Charlie and Bryce for a recap on what has transpired since the Your Party founding conference

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Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis.

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The Catechism for American Power

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.

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Letter: Stakes of the Twenty-First Century

June 15, 2026

“Nicholas Villareal’s comments on the economics of degrowth are a valuable contribution to the discourse on eco-socialism. None of his major points—that labor cost is separate from material …”

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Letter: "I'm a Member"

June 13, 2026

“I’m a memberso persuade me Change my mind! Change my mind!Not in the way of Stephen Crowded But through roberts rules of order style debate, yo. Don’t ask …”

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Letters: The Theses That Eat Themselves

June 9, 2026

“Withers is more honest than most DSA strategy documents, but this creates a problem. He lists programmatic unity, non-reformist reforms, the rank-and-file strategy, red unions, Panther-model mutual aid, …”

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