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About Colin Jenkins

Colin Jenkins is founder, editor, and Social Economics department chair at the Hampton Institute, a working-class think tank named after Fred Hampton. His work has been featured at Black Agenda Report, Monthly Review, Truthout, Truthdig, Counterpunch, New Politics, the Transnational Institute, Z Magazine, and Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict.
  • Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism

    Prisoner prophet: revisiting George Jackson’s analysis of systemic fascism

    Originally published: The Hampton Institute on November 25, 2018 (more by The Hampton Institute)  |

    The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing U.S. Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new–both Obama and W. Bush were regularly characterized as such by their haters–Trump’s emergence on the national political scene comes at a very peculiar moment in U.S. history.

  • Kwame Somburu debating on Firing Line with William F Buckley in 1968

    Learning from our elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism

    Colin Jenkins

    Longtime revolutionary activist Kwame Somburu made it a point throughout his life to stress the “scientific” in socialist. During a time of confusion regarding what socialism is, Kwame’s insistence has never been more crucial.

  • White Working Class

    Race traitors wanted: apply within

    Originally published: The Hampton Institute on February 27, 2018 by Colin Jenkins (more by The Hampton Institute)  |

    The term “white working class” captured much of the media analysis which sought to explain Trump’s meteoric rise and subsequent victory to the highest office in the United States. The obsession with polling and voting trends based in demographics is certainly nothing new.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Extractivism in the Anthropocene
    John Bellamy Foster Dio Cramer

    Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth.

Lost & Found

  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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