Yanis Varoufakis: We are living in a post-capitalist dystopia
From the push to turn more of the workforce into precarious “gig workers†to the ways profit-seeking digital platforms condition how we act and think while extracting free data from…
Chris Hedges: Mass politics must be rooted in class struggle
From the social upheaval embodied in Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice to rampant corporate plunder and increasingly widespread labor unrest, the conditions for an organized…
Adolph Reed Jr. on race reductionism and liberational politics
“There is no doubt that racism is real and has negative consequences for people’s lives,†Adolph Reed Jr. and Touré F. Reed note in the abstract to their article “The…
Joy James on the rise of the Black bourgeoisie
In the 1970s and ‘80s, the image of the Black “welfare queen†was used as a racist scare tactic and a propaganda tool to justify gutting the postwar welfare state,…