Capital Eats the World

Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows that not everything in mainstream economics is worthless.

A General Without an Army

For all Piketty’s mainstream respectability, it is only the radical left and the labor movement — not treasuries and central banks — that can push his program.

The European Conundrum

With last week’s elections, commentators are heralding the “end of Europe,” but the evidence tells a different story.

Piketty’s Fair-Weather Friends

Piketty’s warnings of a capitalism without meritocracy are being challenged by an ossified economic theory.

Not Another Piketty Symposium

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been covered ad nauseam. But how it will change the ideological landscape remains to be seen.

Detroit’s Radical

General Baker spent his life in struggle on the streets and in the auto plants of Detroit.

When Intellectuals Go to War

When it comes to the narcissism of war, no one has quite the self-deluding capacity of the intellectual.

The Intractability of Op-Ed Habits

Has the New York Times ever disavowed its condescending editorials on the Civil Rights Movement?

Sheryl Sandberg and Harvard’s Housekeepers

Speaking at Harvard this week, Sandberg “sent word she does not have time to host a ‘Lean In circle’ with the hotel employees.”

Which Working Families Party?

With next week’s gubernatorial endorsement, we may finally reach the limits of the Working Families Party’s “inside-outside” strategy.

Jacobin IRL

Over the next week, Jacobin will be hosting events at the Left Forum conference and elsewhere in New York.

The Next Portuguese Revolution

On the Carnation Revolution’s fortieth anniversary, Portugal’s elites want to use its legacy to justify austerity.

Kiev’s Theme Park Revolution

The images of genuine popular self-determination in the streets of Kiev are empty ones.

The Problem with Mixed-Income Housing

Chicken Littles of the Right

If the Right wants to cry about class warfare, we should give them something to cry about.

Stalinism in Three Easy Payments

What better way to reform capitalism’s losers than to force them to pay to play?

White Collar Blues: An Interview with Nikil Saval

Even at a time of low pay and degraded working conditions, meritocratic notions surrounding white collar work are hard to dispel.

DIE LINKE’s Road to Power: An Interview with Bernd Riexinger

Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of Germany’s Left Party, talks about socialist strategy in the twenty-first century.

Only As Good As the Movement

Individual activists — no matter how talented — must depend on the movement they represent.

The Rise of the Voluntariat

Like unpaid interns, the “voluntariat” creates profits without being compensated, but out of a sense of altruism.