Will Davies discusses the role of neoliberalism in the rise of contemporary populism, the military logic of the internet, and the nature of the Corbyn project, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
The financial crisis of 2008-9 was the largest and most devastating crisis since the Great Depression. What started on Wall Street soon spread to the rest of world and into the balance sheets of nation states. The cycle of austerity and recession in the subsequent decade is still effecting households and the real economy to this day. But what caused the crisis in the first place? In this now classic essay, Robert Brenner traces the origins of the crisis to the long downturn since the mid '70s, and offers what is still one of the best analyses of the financial system.
In this excerpt from Money, Michel Aglietta insists that money be seen as "an essentially political animal," arguing against the "three lies" relied upon by financial theory and the financial lobby it serves.
20 books on money, markets, and the financial crisis and its aftermath.
“Megafires” are now a staple of life in the West, but how we talk about them illustrates the tension at the heart of the western myth itself.
In his successful presidential campaign, Brazilian far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro has mobilised voters from across the political spectrum. So how can we understand the growing support for authoritarianism in Brazil? Interviewed here for the Portuguese-language edition of Deutsche Welle, Chilean-Brazilian philosopher Vladimir Safatle reads the success of Bolsonaro's “anti-campaign” as the opening shot in an ascendant post-liberal fascist politics that has shifted the locus of action from the streets to the virtual realm.
Check out a preview of the new graphic biography of Eugene Debs, coming out next February!
"Creativity is a distinctly neoliberal trait because it feeds the notion that the world and everything in it can be monetized. The language of creativity has been subsumed by capitalism" - an excerpt from the Introduction to Against Creativity by Oli Mould.
Decades after the military coup, micro-fascism still structures everyday life in Chilean society. But the influence of the Pinochet regime is not only limited to the subcontinent, as a T-shirt with the slogan "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong", worn by a neo-fascist in Portland, Oregon shows. In this article, Oscar Cabezas tries to understand how an inept dictator is turned into an icon of xenophobia, racism and anti-communism, and argues that this is enabled by the erosion of the public space of politics, and its disconnect from the values that democracy supposedly promotes.
Juno Mac and Molly Smith's groundbreaking book is out now and 40% off until November 11.
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.