19092 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Book-Marx #7
Because there’s a whole 14.6 percent of the internet not consumed with Charlie Sheen…
Book-Marx #6
Early 2011 provides hope for both the Arab masses and freelancers earning 30 pence a word scribbling away about “Twitter revolutions” for the Guardian.
Actually Existing Social Democracy
A review of Thomas Geoghegan’s Were You Born On The Wrong Continent?
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.