Can We Criticize Foucault?
Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism.
21058 Article(s) by: Elizabeth Mahony
The Left Can Win
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias on radical politics and what it takes to build mass movements.
Gender Trouble in France
Historian Camille Robcis on why debates over Judith Butler and gay marriage are engulfing France.
The Personal and the Political
Rolling Stone’s controversial article shows why individual narratives have to be wedded to a wider analysis.
The Problem with Body Cameras
Police body cameras don’t attack the root cause of police brutality: institutional racism.
Don’t Mourn the New Republic
It’s been dead for years.
Wobblies Past and Present
Radical historian Staughton Lynd on the lessons we can draw from the demise of the original IWW.
Capitalism’s Gravediggers
How we define capitalism and think about its development shapes how we struggle to transcend it.
Battling Cartel and State
The movement in Mexico is fighting for an alternative to both drug cartels and neoliberalism.
The German Left’s Palestine Problem
Die Linke’s position on Palestine has isolated it from the global solidarity movement.
New Atheism, Old Empire
The “New Atheists” have gained traction because they give intellectual cover to Western imperialism.
Abolish the Senate
The US Senate is one of the world’s most undemocratic legislatures. It needs to go.
Reds and Greens
The New York gubernatorial race has much to tell us about the future of working-class politics in the US.
Holy America
Neil Meyer on growing up in Detroit and whether the Right’s losing ground in the “culture war.”
The Meaning of Black Friday
When Black Friday devours Thanksgiving, capitalism consumes one of its sustaining myths.
America’s Founding Myths
This Thanksgiving, it’s worth remembering that the narrative we hear about America’s founding is wrong. The country was built on genocide.
Organizing Fergusons
Nothing short of a mass movement will stop the police from killing black people.
Philanthropic Poverty
Bono and other philanthropic capitalists push charity to defend property.
Accumulation by Lockout
Companies are increasingly turning to lockouts to break labor. How should unions respond?
Excluded and Exploited
US immigration policy fuels economic exploitation and racial segregation. Obama’s executive order does little to change that.