Theory and Class Struggle: Three Interviews
Raju Das and Robert Latham interview Lilia Monzo, Tom Brass, and Alfred Saad-Filho in the initial piece for the new "Theory and Class Struggle" section of Class, Race and Corporate Power.
View ArticleClass (AAA) Conflict: 100 Years of Exploitation
Major League Baseball continues to operate with an antitrust exemption courtesy of a 1922 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. That exemption is especially relevant for how MLB officials establish the...
View ArticleBell Pottinger: Pre-Digital Fake News During the Rise of Neoliberalism
This article will follow the rise of Bell Pottinger, a PR company whose emergence coincided with the rise of Thatcherism in the 80s and was instrumental in promoting neoliberal ideology to the public...
View ArticleThe Institutional Drivers Contributing to Billionaire Wealth at the Sector Level
Over the last 50 years (the period of neoliberalism) the national wealth of the United States reached unprecedented levels. Despite this dramatic increase in national wealth, an increasing amount of...
View ArticleBanshees of Late Capitalism: War, Ecology, & Alienation
This review essay explores the concepts of war, ecology/human-nonhuman relations, and alienation through a critical analysis of McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin (2022).
View Article"White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa" by Susan...
Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development. This especially pertains to sub-Saharan Africa,...
View ArticleSociology: A Guide to Action or to Analysis in the Global Climate Change...
The debate over the purpose of sociological research has historically been one between Marx and Weber: is sociology’s role to analyze society (ala Weber) or to change it (Marx)? The issue of climate...
View ArticleCritical Political Science Cancels Its Participation in the 2023 APSA Conference
Press release from the Caucus for a Critical Political Science (CCPS) announcing the decision of the CCPS Coordinating Council regarding the 2023 APSA Conference and the UNITE HERE LOCAL 11 struggle....
View ArticleExplaining the Proliferation of U.S. Billionaires During the Neoliberal Period
This article explains the proliferation of U.S. billionaire wealth during the neoliberal period (1980 to the present). Using the work of scholars, investigative journalists, and government...
View ArticleCambridge Analytica: Military Psy-Ops Privatized
This article argues that Cambridge Analytica was developed and operated with the primary objective of pushing far-right nationalist leaders who promoted neoliberal policies in favor of economic...
View ArticleApple “Porn” 2.0: Apple’s Vision (Pro)
This article extends the argument made in “Apple ‘Porn’: Design Videos as Seduction and Exploitation” (Ferriss 2018) to consider the corporation’s filmed representation of its newest device: an...
View ArticleWhat Does Working Class Voter Really Mean?
Understanding how class interests are articulated in U.S. elections has a problematic history in the social sciences as a result of a poor conceptualization of class. Recent scholarly articles by...
View ArticleThe Liberal Ideology of Oppenheimer
The Oppenheimer film centers its narrative too closely to the great man myth of history. As a result, powerful themes such as the politics, economics and morality of the U.S. decision to use two...
View ArticleThe Profits of (the Critique of) Patriarchy: On Toxic Masculinity, Feminism,...
This article explicates the political, social, economic, and cultural contribution of Barbie (2023). Through a critical and normative analysis of four different prominent reviews of the film, this...
View ArticleLabour Power Matters and Capitalist Racism - An Interview with Ken C. Kawashima
Raju Das and Robert Latham interview Ken C. Kawashima about his work and lessons for workers involved in the struggle today.
View ArticleYes, Imperialism Is Still Relevant, and the Struggles Against It Will...
Raju Das and Robert Latham interview Intan Suwandi about her work and how it relates to the struggle against capitalism.
View ArticleThe Working Class and Ecological Crisis - An Interview With Victor Wallis
Raju Das and Robert Latham interview Victor Wallis about his work and the environmental crisis of capitalism.
View ArticleAcademia, Marxism, and Sociology: A Warning From "The History Man"
An essay by Tom Brass which examines how popular culture formed the negative image of sociology as taught at the 1960s new universities by portraying it as following Marxist fashion and thereby...
View ArticleYoung Engels Is Still Engels: A Response to Terrell Carver
Terrel Carver assumes that existing biographies of Engels unfairly seek to explain his ideas in relation to Marx and seek to reconstruct the life journey, especially the ideological journey, of young...
View ArticleLEPAIO Condemns AFL-CIO Leadership’s Bullying Affiliates on International...
A statement from the Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO International Operations (LEPAIO) reprinted with permission. The LEPAIO condemns the AFL-CIO’s leadership for bullying affiliates on...
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