Actually Existing Social Democracy
A review of Thomas Geoghegan’s Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?
19707 Articles by: Enver Motala
Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
Feel Good Zionism
A review of Yitzhak Laor’s The Myths of Liberal Zionism.
Let Them Eat Diversity
On the politics of identity.
Why We Loved the Zapatistas
The abandonment of Marxism had more than academic consequences.
Take This Job and Share It
The one-sided focus of most socialists on distributional questions has obscured the fact that the animating principle of the Left is not so much equality, but freedom.
Resenting Hipsters
The fetishization of work feeds the politics of resentment. It’s time to instead embrace the language of economic and social rights.
The Politics of Being Alone
Life as a solitary struggle.
Introducing Jacobin
Why we exist.
Tainted Love
A review of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
Book-Marx #5
Holiday merriment and feverish polemicizing mesh well.