AI Destruction Isn’t Hypothetical. It’s Already Here.
We don’t need to wait around for a potential artificial intelligence catastrophe sometime down the road. We can already see the havoc it’s wreaking across our society right now.
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History Is Back. Fukuyama Is Neither Surprised nor Thrilled.
It is fashionable to mock Francis Fukuyama as an uncritical celebrant of neoliberal capitalism. But The End of History offered a powerful analysis of the origins of right-wing populism that has proved prescient in the Donald Trump era.
The Iran War Is Starving India
For migrant workers in India, supply shocks from Trump’s folly in the Strait of Hormuz are causing hunger.
The Rising Left Can’t Ignore Labor’s Ongoing Crisis
Working people in America are facing a crisis of living standards, Sam Gindin argues, but this has not translated into a crisis for the capitalist system. To challenge ruling class power, the Left still needs to sink deeper roots into the labor movement.
A New Leader Wants to Move Bulgaria Left
Bulgaria’s Socialist Party survived the end of communism, but in more recent years its neoliberal record and nationalist postures drove it toward defeat. New leader Krum Zarkov told Jacobin how he plans to turn the party toward a renewed socialism.
What Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism Gets Wrong
Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism has become a touchstone for the Left on race and capitalism. August Nimtz argues that it misreads Karl Marx, erases black revolutionaries who were Marxists, and gives up on the working class.
Socialists Should Be Champions of Government Efficiency
The Right has long owned ideas of government efficiency and cutting red tape, using them to carry out austerity. With the Commission on Government Efficiency (yes, COGE), Zohran Mamdani is attempting to claim the cause of good government for the Left.
The Uprising We Got vs. the One We Need
Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising takes on the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 with his trademarked “gritty realist” style. The result is a glum plod through the 14th century. This is Robin Hood and His Morose Men when our times call for something much more.
How Should Socialists Relate to the Market?
Bourgeois economics treats capitalism as simply a market economy. Vivek Chibber traces how markets and private ownership worked under feudalism and under capitalism, and argues that socialism could use markets without restoring class society.
US Imperialism Has Its Own Reasons for War in the Middle East
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt blamed Israel for America’s Middle Eastern fiascos. But from Iraq to Iran, Washington has had its own reasons for war in the Gulf.
The Foundations of Turkey’s Peace With the Kurds Are Shaky
The disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and promised release of its prisoners offers a path to pacifying conflict in Turkey. It’s less clear if the Turkish state is ready to compromise with Kurds’ democratic demands.
The Last Revolutionary Filmmaker
Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old.