Rooting for the Monsters
The monsters of Kong: Skull Island are as brilliantly rendered as its politics are muddled and queasy.
19207 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Trump’s “Hard Power” Budget
Donald Trump’s budget would make America even more authoritarian and militaristic than it already is.
Ignoring Antisemitism’s Threat
Zionist leaders have been downplaying antisemitic attacks in the US in order to cozy up to Donald Trump.
Ireland’s Other Proclamation
This St. Patrick’s Day we remember the 1867 Fenian uprising — and its radical vision of an Irish Republic.
No Easy Answers, Just Bad History
A Vox writer sets out to prove social-democratic policies aided the far right. He fails.
The Far Right’s Leftist Mask
The European far right has cynically appropriated left-wing and pro-worker talking points for its own purposes.
Don’t Study Collective Action Alone
We’re offering bulk copies of The ABCs of Socialism to groups and individuals at below costs.
Between Students and Workers
At the height of the 1960s antiwar movement, student radicals held a heated debate about their role in labor struggles. That debate is still relevant today.
Politicking Without Politics
Democratic elites are delusional — you can’t subdue the reactionary right without a robust alternative political vision.
Two Crises
Capitalism routinely creates crises for the working class. To transform society, we need to create a crisis for capitalists.
Assessing Togliatti
Palmiro Togliatti helped build the Italian Communist Party into the envy of the European left. But just how tangible was his Italian road to socialism?
The Failure of “Choice Feminism”
Jessa Crispin’s new book Why I Am Not a Feminist offers some ideas on how to weave a strong class politics into twenty-first century feminism.
The Real Parallel Between Hitler and Trump
Trump rose to financial and political power thanks to the systemic rot of the country’s political economy.
New Zealand’s Neoliberal Drift
In New Zealand, neoliberal reforms have widened inequality and undermined the country’s self-image as an egalitarian paradise.
Why We Still Talk About the Working Class
Socialists focus on the working class because of our diagnosis of what’s wrong with society and our prognosis of how to fix it.
Liberals and Diversity
Liberal commentators believe that you can have diversity or economic justice, but you can’t have both. They’re wrong.
Making Victims Pay
The Trump administration is demanding that Cambodia pay the United States for the brutal, illegal war the US waged there.
The Right’s Model Nation
The Dutch left has been unable to counter the Islamophobic far right, and it will show in tomorrow’s general elections.
Big Data’s Hidden Labor
Tweetstorms and Netflix binges are really fun — and profitable. It’s time to claim the fruits of our digital labor.
The American Empire Isn’t in Decline
The foreign policy establishment remains confident it can steer the US into a new age of global hegemony.