Link to an article by Rob Urie:
“Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike!”
Bonus links: “Greta Thunberg in Review” and “Greta Thunberg Is No Genius – She’s an Apostle”
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Review of Value and Crisis by Alfredo Saad-Filho
Link to a review by Fabian Van Onzen of the book Value and Crisis: Essays on Labour, Money and Contemporary Capitalism (2019) by Alfredo Saad-Filho:
Bonus links: Review of Making Money and “How Decades of Neoliberalism Led to the Era of Right-Wing Populism” (this article reviews another book on the same topic but is rather questionably historicist, though it is absolutely correct to note that “all policies — whether statist or neoliberal — are normative”) and “When Socialist Hungary Went Neoliberal” (“neoliberalism represents a class project, aiming not so much to ‘restore’ the power of economic elites . . . but instead to re-establish the conditions for capital accumulation following the global crisis of capital accumulation (1968-75). . . . as neoliberalism gradually gained traction amongst ruling classes across the world it has come to represent the current phase of global capitalism. In this regard, neoliberalism is, among others, characterized by a structural reorientation of the state towards export-oriented, financialized capital, open-ended commitments to market-like governance systems, privatization and corporate expansion, a deep aversion to social collectives and the progressive redistribution of wealth on the part of ruling classes, etc.”) (note that this interviewee makes much-contested if not outright dubious claims about “Soviet-style state capitalism” and “the Stalinist myth that the Soviet bloc regimes were somehow ‘post-capitalist’ societies”, that is, he calls the former USSR “state capitalist” rather than communist/socialist)
Sam Husseini – Film ‘Official Secrets’ is the Tip of a Mammoth Iceberg
Link to a review by Sam Husseini:
Julian Paul Merrill – The Fresh Prince of Wakanda
Link to an article by Julian Paul Merrill:
“The Fresh Prince of Wakanda – a Žižekian Analysis of Black America and Identity Politics”
This is a great analysis of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air!
Bonus links: “Quasi Duo Fantasias: A Straussian Reading of ‘Black Panther'” and Review of Black Panther
Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz – Against Happiness
Link to an interview with Edgar Cabanas & Eva Illouz, conducted by David Broder, regarding their book Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control our Lives (2019):
Bonus link: “In the Name of Love” and “Žižek!” and “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting?”
Matt Dimick – The Good and the Bad of Bernie Sanders’s Labor Plan
Link to an article by Matt Dimick:
“The Good and the Bad of Bernie Sanders’s Labor Plan”
This critique doesn’t even really get to the big problem of trade union chauvinism.
Jacques Pauwels – The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939
Link to an article by Jacques Pauwels:
“The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality”
This article makes some dubious assertions about the USSR, namely that Stalin knew approximately when Hitler would invade the USSR (when actually Stalin was paralyzed with shock and indecision — see Moshe Lewin’s The Soviet Century) and that the Red Army was knowledgeable and ready, when it suffered a defeat at the hands of tiny Finland and was greatly weakened by Stalin’s purges (again see Lewin’s book). But the parts about appeasement by Western powers is good.
Intan Suwandi – Outsourcing Exploitation
Link to an article by Intan Suwandi:
“Outsourcing Exploitation: Global Labor-Value Chains”
The key seems to be that, at a minimum, contracting with outsourced suppliers on terms that are (objectively) unreasonable should force the large contracting party to bear responsibility for foreseeable problems — much like old fraudulent conveyance laws. Suwandi’s article nails the problem, though this article provides only a cursory explanation of why Global South suppliers would agree to such an arrangement, something that others have explained more fully: Slavoj Žižek Quote About Domination, “Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism”, Ruy Mauro Marini‘s “Brazilian ‘Interdependence’ and Imperialist Integration” (“sub-imperialism” involves peripheral economies collaborating actively with the imperialist expansion of core economies like the United States, assuming in that expansion the position of a key nation), “Malcolm Describes the Difference Between the ‘House Negro’ and the ‘Field Negro.’”. See also The Fissured Workplace
Michael Hudson – Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy
Link to an article by Michael Hudson:
“Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy”
Bonus link: The State and Revolution
George Martin Fell Brown – Marxism and the Philosophy of Science
Link to a review by George Martin Fell Brown of Helena Sheehan’s book Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History (1985/2018):
“Book Review: Marxism and the Philosophy of Science”
This review does suffer from a bit of a Trotskyist (anti-Stalinist) bias, but it still provides a useful historical overview.