
The Challenge of Low Birth Rates for the Socialist Project
The global birth rate collapse threatens more than economic dynamism and the viability of the welfare state. It poses a threat to the future of radical politics.
Asher Dupuy-Spencer is publisher of Jacobin.
The global birth rate collapse threatens more than economic dynamism and the viability of the welfare state. It poses a threat to the future of radical politics.
Some technologies increase productivity, but others reshape not only our society but our physiology. Whatever AI turns out to be, the socialist strategy must be the same: increasing the power of labor.
More unequal societies are less trusting, more violent, less healthy, and more stressed.