What’s In Our First Print Issue
The opening editorial of our first print issue, “Building Big Things.”
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How Capitalism Underwrote Its Own Stability in the Cold War
Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises enhances our empirical understanding of why the Cold War ended when and how it did. But his book contains an ambivalent account of the importance of ideology in East and West that raises questions about its causal story.
Patrolling Class Theory
A new crop of academic critics treat working-class differentiation as a theoretical conclusion rather than as a point of departure. This is a profoundly cynical position that obscures the true sources of defeat: working-class atomization and resignation.
The Left Did A No Growth
Degrowth isn’t just political poison, it is also based on faulty economics. The sooner we abandon it the better.
Hitler Envy
Comparisons to Hitler or the Nazis are pervasive in our media environment. What is this reductio ad hitlerum doing for us?
Toward a Socialist Minimalism
It’s possible simply to have no definite opinion about many issues that our media outlets tell us are very pressing. In fact, this might be a principled position to hold.
Deepening the Void
The ruling class has found that “externalizing” their decision making to transnational organizations of various sorts can be a way to evade accountability. It is also a contradictory and self-undermining mode of governance.
