In the latest episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Louis Hyman joins Betsy Beasley and David Stein to discuss the historical roots of the forms of casualized and precarious labour characteristic of the gig economy.
Following Bernie Sander's unsuccessful campaign for the Presidential nomination in 2016, the Democratic Party has once more become a site of struggle for socialists. Leading up to the November 6th midterms, could the Democratic Party, in fact, be the best vehicle for social change? In this essay, first published over 30 years ago, Mike Davis warns us about the pitfalls of electoralism, and the passive clientelism that tends to replace popular politics under the bureaucratic guidance of the Democratic Party.
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Rodrigo Nunes discusses Jair Bolsonaro's election victory in Brazil, Bolsonaro's background, the composition of his electoral coalition, the mistakes of the Brazilian Worker's Party, and the nature of the contemporary far right, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast
With increasing right-wing fervor over the caravan of Central American migrants headed for the USA’s southern border, we need more than ever to articulate a theory of mobility justice. Here, we present an excerpt from the first chapter of Mimi Sheller’s Mobility Justice, outlining the need for a conception of movement that is focused not only on accessibility, but also equity.
The study of feudal society has been central to Marxist historiography. But what if a foundational theoretical mistake has governed these inquiries for decades? In this article Hugo Raine studies the writings of Jairus Banaji and Perry Anderson on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and asks whether you can speak of feudalism as a unitary social system, or whether that is a feature unique to capitalism.
This fall marks the 70th anniversary of a brutal and largely unknown massacre of the early cold war on the Korean island of Cheju/Jeju. In this article, Brendan Wright recounts the history of the massacre, placing it in the context of Cold War politics and the history of the Korean peninsula.
Heather Gautney, Executive Director at Our Revolution and author of Crashing the Party: From the Bernie Sanders Campaign to a Progressive Movement, refutes the largely baseless assertions in Politico that Sanders 2016 backers are unenthusiastic about a potential 2020 run.
Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right politician, has won the Brazilian Presidential election, beating the PT's Fernando Haddad. During the campaign, Bolsonaro repeatedly threatened not just the PT and the Brazilian left, but the foundations of Brazil's democracy. In this report from Brazil, Conor Foley asks what Bolsonaro's victory could mean for the future of the country.
Jair Bolsonaro looks to be on the brink of victory in today's presidential election in Brazil. But, how do we define his authoritarianism, and is he a fascist? Gabriel Landi Fazzio looks to the history of fascism to analyse the resurgent far right.
The far right Jair Bolsonaro looks set to win tomorrow's election in Brazil. Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that his improbable rise represents the growth of an authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil and across the world. If he's elected president, Brazilian democracy could collapse.