A Platform of Fear
R. Trebor Scholz proposes worker self-management and ownership as an antidote to digital labour practices such as Uber’s ‘deactivation’ of drivers.
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The roots of the new cold war w/ Gilbert Achcar
The latest episode of the Politics Theory Other podcast. -
From production to reproduction
Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a broad view of the sites where social reproduction is located in capitalist society. -
One flesh: the prohibition of incest in the West
Anthropologist Maurice Godelier considers the Christian dogma of ‘una caro’ as a way to understand the incest taboo in the West. -
Socialist Strategy in Western Europe: Ernest Mandel Debate with Monty Johnstone (1977)
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The Palestinian Panopticon
Checkpoints on the border of Palestine and Israel as the architecture of occupation
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Understanding apartheid as a consequence of capitalist development
Antiracist thinkers of the 1970s looked to South Africa as a case study on how deeply intertwined racism was with capitalism. -
Conversations With Allende, 50 years after the 1973 coup
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Death of the breadwinner: how the male breadwinner/female homemaker model collapsed
The change in economic conditions that turned women from an intrafamilial reserve army of labour into a permanent active service between postwar settlement and neoliberalism. -
Ganjapreneurs and the Caucasian Cannabis Cartel
Business is now booming in the marijuana industry, despite it still being controlled at the federal level as a Schedule 1 drug.
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Pharmanomics: a Letter from the Editor
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Review of Chantal Jaquet, Transclasses: A Theory of Social Non-reproduction
