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Partners in Brutality
New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.
by
Nicholas Guyatt
via
New York Review of Books
on
October 18, 2021
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery
This historian and politician helped transform how several generations understood 18th- and 19th-century history.
by
Gerald Horne
via
The Nation
on
October 5, 2021
Outcasts and Desperados
Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."
by
Adam Shatz
via
London Review of Books
on
October 4, 2021
Life Can Be Different: 10 Years Ago, Occupy Wall Street Changed the World
The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.
by
Rebecca Nathanson
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The Guardian
on
September 15, 2021
The Idea of Work, From Below
Ideas about working from the employee perspective.
by
Joel Suarez
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Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
on
September 6, 2021
The Rise of the UniverCity
Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.
by
Davarian L. Baldwin
,
Meagan Day
via
Jacobin
on
September 2, 2021
partner
Centuries of U.S. Imperialism Made Surfing an Olympic Sport
With an eye toward U.S. power, Americans spread the sport making its Olympic debut.
by
Thomas Blake Earle
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Made By History
on
July 25, 2021
Lewis Hine, Photographer of the American Working Class
Lewis Hine captured the misery, dignity, and occasional bursts of solidarity within US working-class life in the early twentieth century.
by
Billy Anania
via
Jacobin
on
June 8, 2021
The Tulsa Race Massacre Went Way Beyond “Black Wall Street”
Most Black Tulsans in 1921 were working class. But these days, it seems like the fate of those few blocks in and around “Black Wall Street” is all that matters.
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
,
George Yancy
via
Truthout
on
June 1, 2021
In the Common Interest
How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.
by
Nic Johnson
,
Chris Hong
,
Robert Manduca
via
Boston Review
on
May 18, 2021
Free as in Fred
Activists on the campaign were dedicated, but the city of Chicago and the FBI had conspired to murder the city’s best organizer that night in December 1969.
by
Simon Balto
via
The Baffler
on
May 3, 2021
Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country
Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.
by
Justin H. Vassallo
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Boston Review
on
May 1, 2021
Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
by
Doug Henwood
via
Jacobin
on
April 21, 2021
Tarry with Me
Reclaiming sweetness in an anti-Black world.
by
Ashanté M. Reese
via
Oxford American
on
March 23, 2021
The Other Nuremberg Trials, Seventy-Five Years On
Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.
by
Erica X. Eisen
via
Boston Review
on
March 22, 2021
The Lost Plan for a Black Utopian Town
Soul City in North Carolina was designed to build Black wealth and address racial injustice. Then its opponents lined up.
by
Divya Subramanian
via
The New Republic
on
March 17, 2021
The Future of L.A. Is Here
On L.A. solidarity and the Black radical tradition.
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
,
Vinson Cunningham
via
Los Angeles Times
on
March 17, 2021
What Dignity Demands
A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.
by
Brandon M. Terry
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 18, 2021
The Arch of Injustice
St. Louis seems to define America’s past—but does it offer insight for the future?
by
Steven Hahn
via
Public Books
on
February 16, 2021
What Would the Socialist Who Created the Hedge Fund Think of the GameStop Mess?
When Alfred Winslow Jones created the hedge fund in 1949, the key to its approach was short sales, a practice the GameStop mess returned to public infamy.
by
David Huyssen
via
Los Angeles Times
on
February 12, 2021
The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism
In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?
by
Kelefa Sanneh
via
The New Yorker
on
February 1, 2021
A Brief History of Consumer Culture
Over the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.
by
Kerryn Higgs
via
The MIT Press Reader
on
January 11, 2021
The Prophet of Maximum Productivity
Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.
by
Kwame Anthony Appiah
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 3, 2021
How Sci-Fi Shaped Socialism
Sci-fi has long provided an outlet for socialist thinkers — offering readers a break from capitalist realism and allowing us to imagine a different world.
by
Nick Hubble
via
Jacobin
on
December 18, 2020
Caste Does Not Explain Race
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
by
Charisse Burden-Stelly
via
Boston Review
on
December 14, 2020
What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton
Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
by
Michael Busch
,
Christian Parenti
via
Boston Review
on
December 14, 2020
From Keynes to the Keynesians
Socialised investment and the spectre of full employment.
by
Tim Barker
via
Verso
on
December 4, 2020
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.
by
Simon Torracinta
via
Boston Review
on
November 30, 2020
Warfare State
Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.
by
Thomas Meaney
via
London Review of Books
on
October 28, 2020
Talking About Auto Work Means Talking About Constant, Brutal Violence
It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.
by
Jeremy Milloy
,
Micah Uetricht
via
Jacobin
on
October 23, 2020
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