Tom Wetzel reviews Robin Hahnel’s proposal for democratic economic planning, based on workers’ councils, consumers’ councils and a non-market price system.
Category: Political Economy
Labor Solidarity Through Supply Chains
Foxconn and the U.S. Labor Movement
Zhang Mazi highlights the power held by Foxconn workers and calls on US workers to build solidarity, including by targeting Foxconn’s global supply chains.
Between Chinese Surveillance and Israeli Settler Colonialism
On the extensive collaborations between the Chinese and Israeli regimes on surveillance technologies, which are also increasingly used in North America.
Activists on U.S.-China Labor Solidarity
Ellen David Friedman, Alex T. Tom and Kevin Lin discuss the experiences and importance of worker-to-worker solidarity for democratic unionism between the US and China.
Capitalism, Imperialism, and Global Displacement
Justin Akers Chacón discusses how the crises of global capitalism and imperialism are causing mass displacement of immigrants, who are targeted by fascist and bourgeois political forces.
Claudia Sheinbaum
What the Election of AMLO’s Protégé Means for Mexico
Dan La Botz critically examines the authoritarian and militarist legacy of López Obrador, and prospects for Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency.
The Exercise of Power in the Cuban Revolution: From Below or From Above?
The verticality of the 1959 revolutionary process took us by its own logic and dynamism to the extreme authoritarianism and total absence of democracy in today’s Cuba.
U.S. Economy: Saved by Immigrants
The pickup in U.S. growth last year came from a sharp rise in net immigration. In simple terms, more workers generate more goods and services.
The Nature of Neoliberalism
What can we learn about neoliberalism from Neil Davidson’s new book?
Charles Post assesses Neil Davidson’s posthumous book on neoliberalism, which makes a key contribution to the Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism.
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The Flat World and the Flat-Worlders
John Feffer reviews Kevin Funk’s “Rooted Globalism”, on the persistence of the national character of each capitalist class amidst globalization.
Decarbonization and Decolonization
Colonial Capitalism and Puerto Rico
The Case for an EcoSocialist Green New Deal Regardless of COP28
Puerto Rican socialist Rafael Bernabe calls for a Green New Deal in Puerto Rico, to facilitate its economic and ecological reconstruction.
The New U.S. Labor Movement
The labor movement in the United States is passing through a transition from the stagnation of the period from 1980-2010 to a new period of dynamic change in industrial decentralization, new technologies, work, organization, union activism, and the enormous and enveloping issue of climate chan
Gaza: A Ghastly Window into the Crisis of Global Capitalism
Gaza is a real-time alarm bell that genocide may become a political tool in the decades to come for resolving capital’s intractable contradiction between surplus capital and surplus humanity.
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 4
Given China’s drivers, it’s difficult to imagine how this trend could be halted or reversed short of the collapse or overthrow of the CCP. That’s coming but of course it’s impossible to predict when.
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 3
If Xi’s Chinese-style modernization has shattered the myth that modern-is-Western, then why is his economy still so dependent on Western science and technology?
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 1
Xi’s “new type civilization” is the opposite of all this. Instead of enlightenment, emancipation, freedom, critical thinking, science and democracy.
Beyond Capitalism: A Participatory Economy
What do those who are fed up with capitalism propose to put in its place?
Assessing and Regulating Artificial Intelligence
A call for a moratorium on AI development based on the precautionary principle, and a discussion of the difficulty of achieving it in a capitalist society.
Biden in Ireland: The Failure of Neoliberalism
Ireland’s recent past, north and south, has been miserable—fueled by the “there is no alternative” capitalism promoted by the Irish ruling class and external powers—which will be highlighted and evident in Biden’s visit.
The Future of Cuba—Part One
What can we learn from the experience of other countries that can help us think about possible futures for Cuba?
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