Cult Capitalism
To understand how NXIVM’s members went from the pursuit of professional success to facilitating and enduring horrific wrongs requires examining the world of contemporary business from which the cult emerged.
Winter 2024
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From Fossil Capitalism to Green Democracy
An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
Essential and Untrusted
The pandemic has exacerbated an existing child care crisis. Platforms like Care.com are growing, while exposing care workers to new forms of surveillance and discrimination.
Digital Piecework
Homework and piece pay in the garment industry were largely abolished by the global labor struggles that preceded the New Deal. Silicon Valley capitalists have brought the model back.
The Hustle Economy
Today, inequality—especially racial inequality—is not only produced through the job market but through people’s ability to hustle.
Bodies on the Line
Introducing our Fall 2020 special section, “Technology and the Crisis of Work.”
Joy Amid the Ruins
Amid the wreckage of the Trump administration, growing numbers of people are discovering solidarity—democratic socialism, even. Their vision may be radical. But have you seen the alternative?
The Port Huron Statement at Fifty
The Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society is the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the American Left.
Bruce Springsteen’s American Dream
N. Lewis: The Boss Fights Back
Did Zuccotti Matter?
Nick Serpe: Did Zuccotti Matter?
In Defense of Hippies
D. Goldberg: In Defense of Hippies
Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto
We can learn more about globalization, inequality, and modernity from the Communist Manifesto than from any book ever written.
Argument: On Envisioning Real Utopias
Argument: Barnes v. Jacoby
Argument: Michael Burawoy and Russell Jacoby
Argument: Burawoy v. Jacoby
Real Men Find Real Utopias
Envisioning Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright Verso, 2010, 394 pp. A BOOK on utopias by a Marxist sociologist seems promising, perhaps even courageous. In Envisioning Real Utopias, Erik Olin Wright seeks to counter widespread cynicism about radical social transformation. …
