Abolish Blue Power
Julian Assele, June 4, 2026
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. Read Article.
Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”
Julian Assele, May 21, 2026
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. Read Article.
Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'
Julian Assele, March 27, 2026
Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline racialized surplus labor. Read Article.
Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally's 'Slavery and Capitalism'
Julian Assele, December 17, 2025
David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism's revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. Read Article.