Michael A. McCarthy

Michael A. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His book Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. He has written for the Boston Review, Jacobin, Noema, and the Washington Post.

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    The Frankenstein Problem of Capitalism

    “If capitalism survives by creating monsters that it cannot itself fully control, then those monsters must also have the capacity to harm capitalism itself. Like Frankenstein’s monster, they might destroy their own master.”