Why We Loved the Zapatistas
The abandonment of Marxism had more than academic consequences.
19523 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
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.
Book-Marx #3
Because if coming up with a pithy one line opener is hard by edition three…
Weekly Sisyphus #2
Is Europe entering the “Age of Austerity”?
Book-Marx #2
Look what we dragged out of the cesspool…