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We must go global: the case of South Korea 19 Aug 2013 | 02:27 pm
If we don't go global, we can't win. Consider, for example, recent developments in South Korea around temporary employment (covered here at the Financial Times, behind a paywall). The rise of temp wo...
The Moral Imagination of Neoliberal Society 12 Aug 2013 | 09:41 pm
In an interesting essay on the Jacobin website, David V. Johnson describes the perils of moral sentimentalism, "an excessive, even obsessional tendency to view the world through the narrow lens of the...
Neoliberalism and the "carbon bubble" 5 Aug 2013 | 11:05 am
In an earlier post I argued that overcoming neoliberalism is the key to saving humanity from climate apocalypse, based on the thought that the necessary political actions (examples: "heavy-handed inte...
Only A Pawn in Their Game 30 Jul 2013 | 07:35 am
White alienation is on the rise. “Going back to the 1980s, never have whites been so pessimistic about their futures,” according to a recent article about increasing economic insecurity published by t...
(Un)Education in America 20 Jul 2013 | 10:19 am
Tomorrow's schools, today In June I wrote a post about the internship and its role in the redefinition of labor and training. Widespread divestment from training, in which the cost of training is tra...
Culture as a Historical Problem, Part II: Rock and Roll as Mass Social Critique 15 Jul 2013 | 03:24 am
“I got my own world to live through, and I ain't gonna copy you...I'm the one who's gonna have to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” Jimi Hendrix The sixtie...
Rand Paul could redefine American politics, straight into disaster 3 Jul 2013 | 12:57 pm
A path to the triumph of American reaction Part 2 of 2 | Part 1 When a capitalist regime of accumulation breaks down, the only impractical path forward is to maintain the status quo. Fundamental chan...
Keynesian Fordism: global political economy of a passive revolution 25 Jun 2013 | 02:43 am
This is the second in a series of three texts retracing the historical roots of present-day economic institutions and class relations. The previous post examined the institutional crisis of American s...
Rand Paul’s route to victory and the transformation of the Republican Party 20 Jun 2013 | 08:32 am
A path to the triumph of American reaction Part 1 of 2 This is disturbing: President Rand Paul: Watch out, he’s becoming a better politician every day If Rand Paul were able to assemble an unlikely ...
Culture as a Historical Problem, Part I: The Folk Tradition of the Classical Workers' Movement 10 Jun 2013 | 08:43 am
“Solidarity forever, the union makes us strong!” Ralph Chaplin/Traditional “We all shall die.” Metallica I once heard a prominent leftist academic suggest that “the problem with the left today is ...
