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Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 2)

Eds.

What is the point of Star Trek? Is it conceivable that all these treks among the stars are in fact subtle ways to spread and justify U.S. policies, ideology, militarism, and interventionism?

May 8, 2021 | Newswire

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On Paul Kingsnorth and unruly nature

Anthony Galluzzo

Myth, an early and enduring human technology, will always be with us, in both unconscious and conscious forms. As we now face the slow-motion collapse of the biosphere, the call for new myths is not so much an escapist alternative to concrete analysis and action as a starting point.

May 7, 2021 | Monthly Review Essays

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In Kerala, the present is dominated by the future

Vijay Prashad

Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people of Kerala have voted out the incumbent, seeking to alternate between the Left and the Right.

May 7, 2021 | Newswire

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Freedom Rider: Progressives capitulate to Biden

Margaret Kimberley

There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.

May 7, 2021 | Newswire

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Marx on technology

Andy Merrifield

The longest chapter in Capital is the fifteenth, on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry.”

May 7, 2021 | Newswire

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Two classes of trans kids are emerging–those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don’t

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For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.

May 7, 2021 | Newswire

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America hasn’t reckoned with the coup that blasted the Black middle class

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In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow–and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.

May 7, 2021 | Newswire

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May 2021 (Volume 73, Number 1)

The Editors (May 6, 2021)

In 1884, important figures in England’s budding socialist movement broke with the Social Democratic Federation over concealed jingoism and strong support for the British Empire. A similar division within the broad left on the issue of imperialism is threatening to reappear in our time. | more…

The Council on Foreign Relations, the Biden Team, and Key Policy Outcomes

Laurence H. Shoup (May 6, 2021)

We can analyze the new Biden administration, its personnel, and the policies it is likely to follow, especially on the all-important questions of the climate crisis and U.S. grand strategy toward China, by looking at the Council on Foreign Relations. | more…

Five Characteristics of Neoimperialism

Cheng Enfu (May 6, 2021)

This article will be released in full online May 10, 2021.

Neoimperialism, the specific contemporary phase of historical development, can be summed up on the basis of five key features: the new monopoly of production and circulation; the new monopoly of finance capital; the monopoly of the U.S. dollar and intellectual property; the new monopoly of the international oligarchic alliance; and the economic essence and general trend. | more…

The Paris Commune: Marx, Mao, Tomorrow

Alain Badiou (May 6, 2021)

This article will be released in full online May 17, 2021.

Today the political visibility of the Paris Commune is not at all evident. At least, that is, if what we mean by “today” is the moment when we have to take up the challenge of thinking politics outside its subjection to the state and outside the framework of parties or party.… And yet the Commune was a political sequence that, precisely, did not situate itself in such a subjection or in such a framework. [To tackle] the political facts and determinations of the Commune…[it is necessary to utilize] a completely different method…[than that of the classical interpretation]. | more…

Nostalgia for what never was

Marge Piercy (May 6, 2021)

A new poem by Marge Piercy. | more…

April 2021 (Volume 72, Number 11)

The Editors (April 4, 2021)

Many factors are involved in COVID-19 mortality rates. Nevertheless, it is clear that the more socialist-oriented countries—by prioritizing social needs and public health, plus aggressive testing, tracing, and enlisting the aid of their populations—have generally been more effective in limiting the effects of the disease on their societies. The failure of the wealthier capitalist countries to do so is largely a result of their prioritization of profits over people. | more…

Repairing the Soil Carbon Rift

Fred Magdoff (April 4, 2021)

To create and preserve a permanent thriving agriculture for untold generations to come, it is essential to manage and care for soils using practices that build and maintain healthy soils. | more…

Building Communities of Solidarity

Fernando E. Gapasin (April 4, 2021)

Bill Fletcher Jr. and Bill Gallegos interview Fernando Gapasin on race, class, and building communities of solidarity. | more…

History comes in bad cycles

Marge Piercy (April 4, 2021)

A new poem by Marge Piercy. | more…

I wake to the possible

Marge Piercy (April 4, 2021)

A new poem by Marge Piercy. | more…

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