The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth
April 1, 2022
The rapid financialization of nature is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.
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The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism
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- Vol. 73, No. 11 (April 2022)
April 1, 2022
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift.
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The Bhima Koregaon Arrests and the Resistance in India
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- Vol. 73, No. 11 (April 2022)
April 1, 2022
The cold-blooded murders of activists by state forces in India represents a historical pattern of extrajudicial repression.
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For an Ecosocialist Degrowth
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- Vol. 73, No. 11 (April 2022)
April 1, 2022
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum.
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Standing Against Racism and Empire: Remembering Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Sutherland Martinez
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- Vol. 73, No. 11 (April 2022)
April 1, 2022
Elizabeth "Betita" Sutherland Martinez spent her life fighting the death and destruction imposed by the White House and the Pentagon, from border jails to police barracks in every city and town across the United States.
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Notes from the Editors, March 2022
March 1, 2022
The struggle over schools today requires battles over both the privatization of education and the current attempts to limit its social content and meaning. Those fighting against this changing totality must align themselves with the embattled radical teachers in the trenches. In the famous words of Grace Lee Boggs, more than a half-century ago, it is necessary to create "a new system of education that will have as its means and its end the development of the great masses of people to govern over themselves and administer over things."
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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
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- Vol. 73, No. 10 (March 2022)
March 1, 2022
From September to November 2021, overlapping with the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference negotiations in Glasgow, three major interrelated developments occurred in global finance. Taken together, these changes mark a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and the culmination of a theoretical shift in the dominant economic paradigm aimed at the unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including "natural capital."
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The End of the Trilogy
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- Vol. 73, No. 10 (March 2022)
March 1, 2022
In Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State, István Mészáros closes a trilogy that was first outlined in Marx's Theory of Alienation, later greatly developed in Beyond Capital, and is now concluded in this new work. Throughout his immensely rich work, Mészáros developed, amid many original formulations, an increasingly relevant concept: capital's order of social metabolic reproduction.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
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- Vol. 73, No. 10 (March 2022)
March 1, 2022
The Che Guevara Commune is far removed from the bustle of Venezuela's huge coastal cities. You reach it by following a steep winding road from the shores of Lake Maracaibo into La Culata National Park. Lush vegetation and tall bucare trees provide good shade for coffee and cacao, which has only begun to be farmed in recent decades in this region, due to the migration triggered by the construction of the Pan-American Highway along the lake's perimeter in the 1950s.
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