350 Search Result(s) for: “abundance”
China in Revolt
Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.
A Jacobin Primer
Read the CliffsNotes, impress your fancy friends.
Socialism for a Less Skeptical Age
Capital used to sell us visions of tomorrow.
Post-Work: A Guide for the Perplexed
The basic vision of the post-work left is one of fewer jobs and shorter hours.
Against the Law
By organizing based on international law, the struggle for Palestinian liberation has been transformed into a question of rights.
Curious Utopias
A Universal Basic Income may not be much of a utopia in itself, but it points in surprisingly radical directions.
Sympathy for Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman takes up the banner of the Luddites. Here's what he gets wrong.
Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
The fight at the heart of the BART strike isn't over whether or not to innovate — it's about innovation that improves transit service without degrading and disempowering workers.
11/25 Event, Last Chance for Books, Posters
The first wave of Jacobin books will be released in early March 2014, with several more to come.
Counterinsurgency’s Resurrections
No matter how many times the doctrine has proved a bloody failure, the American military keeps coming back to counterinsurgency tactics.
Toward Cyborg Socialism
The failure of the American left to engage more substantially on environmental issues at home has real consequences for the expansion of neoliberalism worldwide.
Alive in the Sunshine
There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old stumbling blocks: consumption and jobs. And the way to do that is through a universal basic income.
Legoland Lost
The Lego Movie’s emphasis on creative and spontaneous play clashes with what the toys have become.
The Comforts of Dystopia
Elites tell us the future is inevitably bright; left curmudgeons insist it’s inevitably gloomy. We don’t win from playing this game.
A General Without an Army
For all Piketty’s mainstream respectability, it is only the radical left and the labor movement — not treasuries and central banks — that can push his program.
Edutopia
Education is not a design problem with a technical solution. It’s a social and political project neoliberals want to innovate away.