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Structural crisis needs structural change
by István Mészáros When stressing the need for a radical structural change it must be made clear right from the beginning that this is not a call for an unrealizable utopia. On the… Read More →
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Taking notes 4
There is an interesting casino scene in Thunderball where Connery’s Bond stares down the bad guy Largo and tells him that he sees the spectre of defeat behind the shoulder of his opponent.… Read More →
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Revolutionary constructivism
by Sanjay Perera This essay is dedicated to those men and women in Singapore who were unjustly detained without trial under the Internal Security Act which has yet to be abolished. “At the… Read More →
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Towards a post-Occupy world
by Richard J. White Running deeply through radical critiques that have emerged across dissident academic, activist and public communities — critiques that have pricked the mainstream consciousness...
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Nightfall: Dimming of the dream and search for an alternative
by P. J. Laska Given the emphasis on imposing hegemony by military means, it is a splendid irony that ‘American Way of Life’ should share its acronym (AWOL) with the military term “Absent… Read More →
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Redesigning money for well-being and happiness
by Mark Anielski “One must make a new system that makes the old system obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller The greatest threat to the pursuit of genuine happiness and well-being is our current debt-money…...
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Money and the turning of the Age
by Charles Eisenstein As the economic meltdown proceeds to its next phase, we begin to see the unreality of much that we thought real. The verities of two generations become uncertain, and despite…...
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Nightfall II: Endgame for the American Way of Life
by P. J. Laska After commenting on the mass delusion that characterizes AWOL (the American Way of Life) in the Post-Meltdown era (Nightfall: Dimming of the dream) this essay looks at the significance…...
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Petro-market civilization
by Tim Di Muzio Prologue: The Rule of Threes Lending weight to the popular saying that bad things always come in threes, three events in April of 2010 underscored the level of capitalist… Read More →
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Reflections on 1968
by George Katsiaficas More often than not, the movements of 1968 have been situated within nationalist parameters, and the global dimension of the movement’s vitality, if not altogether ignored, has...
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Taking notes 31: The wolfman, capital and fugazi
by Sanjay Perera We welcome illusions because they spare us emotional distress, and enable us instead to indulge in gratification. We must not then complain if now and again they come into conflict…...
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Taking notes 37: Meritocracy, repression and Piketty’s apocalyptic asymptote
This unabashed aspiration to study good and evil, about which every citizen is an expert, may make some readers smile…Everyone is political in his or her own way. The world is not divided… Continue...
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How will capitalism end?
by Wolfgang Streeck There is a widespread sense today that capitalism is in critical condition, more so than at any time since the end of the Second World War.[1] Looking back, the crash… Continue...
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Richard D. Wolff: ‘The game is rigged’
Richard D. Wolff (2015): ‘The game is rigged’ The writer is a professor of economics in the New School University in New York City, posts all his work at rdwolff.com and democracyatwork.info. This work...
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