Smash the Engine

Snowpiercer’s themes go beyond merely pointing out class exploitation to challenge the logic of capital.

Why We’re Marxists

Marxism lives because we have not gone beyond the circumstances that created it.

Saving Private Capital

US corporations are sitting on $2 trillion and the public sector is suffering massive budget shortfalls. Yet the Economist can’t imagine the two are connected.

Detroit’s Grand Bargain

Detroit’s bankruptcy and decay are symptoms of a fully-functioning free market, not a new “post-capitalist” order.

When Presidents Get Bored

Beware politicians yearning for more stimulating political life. They usually seek it abroad, in foreign wars and imperial exploits.

Privatizing Marx

We shouldn’t sympathize with Lawrence and Wishart. Karl Marx’s work belongs to the public.

Paying Dues

Ending dues check-off will not reverse the labor movement’s bureaucratization and conservatism.

Blood Banking

Tissue and organ transfers are assumed to go from the healthy to the sick — not the poor to the wealthy.

Stay Classy

Class is not the universal solvent that does away with all identity.

Gabriel Kolko’s Unfinished Revolution

Kolko reshaped the way we think about how the state protects and advances capitalist interests.

Atlas Smug

What’s Next for the German Left?

The German left must figure out how to create an appealing socialist project among the “winners” of Europe’s crisis.

Educating for the Status Quo

The Common Core leaves intact the longstanding ethos of American public education: what’s good for capital is good for the student.

Gentrification’s Racial Arbitrage

When it comes to housing and gentrification, anti-racism is about more than purifying what’s in our hearts or our heads.

Electoral Strategy for the Left

Independent political challenges are welcome, but breaking the two-party system will require efforts that go beyond the ballot box.

No More Imperial Crusades

America has done enough harm to Iraqis already. Further intervention must be opposed.

Bureaucracy and Solidarity: An Interview with Staughton Lynd

What strategies can reverse the labor movement’s decline?

Collective Panic in Venezuela

Venezuela’s colectivos are a myth created by the country’s elites to discredit the struggle for socialism and grassroots democracy.

The SPD Under Angela Merkel

With the opposition reduced to a dispersed minority, the German government is firmly in the hands of Angela Merkel’s centrist coalition.

The Genius of Silicon Valley

Despite his libertarianism, Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley tears apart tech elites with a ruthless precision we haven’t seen since Office Space