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Behind BRICS expansion
AT the Johannesburg summit of the BRICS countries, it was decided to expand the group beyond its original five, namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to include six more countries.
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Review: Vivek Chibber – “The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn”
The Class Matrix concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn.
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Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò – “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”
The culture wars are back with a vengeance, if they ever actually left us.
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Alienation under capitalism and the conspiracy pipeline
When class analysis is absent from discussions about systemic problems, issues like income inequality, access to resources, and power imbalances are often oversimplified or ignored.
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Review: Richard Wolin – “Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology”
The philosophical community knows by now that philosopher Martin Heidegger was fiercely antisemitic and personally drew connections between his philosophy and his support for Nazi ideology.
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Discovering a Green Marx: Kohei Saito’s ‘Marx in the Anthropocene’
It’s always seemed a little strange that less has been said about the final 15 years of Marx’s oeuvre than any other period of his writing.
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Review – Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political
‘Left Feminisms’ offers an inspiring and accessible overview of feminism from a diverse array of left-wing thinkers, writes Marin Scarlett.
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Vijay Prashad on BRICS & why Global South cooperation is key to dismantling unjust World Order
BRICS countries represent 40% of the world’s population and a quarter of the world’s economy, and the group is now considering a possible expansion to more than 20 other countries.
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Our food system is the bullseye for solving the World’s climate challenges
The industrialized food system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but it is not a major topic at climate talks.
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The crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Biblical prophets — Elijah, Amos, Jeremiah, Isaiah — believed that anything worth living for was worth dying for. Their enemy was not only suffering, calumny, poverty, injustice, but a life devoid of meaning.
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The BRICS have changed the balance of forces, but they will not by themselves change the World: The Thirty Third Newsletter (2023)
Despite the limitations of the BRICS project, it is clear that the increase in South-South trade and the development of Southern institutions (for development financing, for instance) challenges the neo-colonial system even if it does not immediately transcend it.
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De-gamify the Earth
Basically the problem is that our whole planet has been gamified. All the Earth’s life, resources and geography have been folded into this sick game where people commodify them into points called money, for no other reason than to score as many points as possible.
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World Bank climate finance plan little help, unfair
The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis. But the new plan is not the solution it purports to be.
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The deadly intersection of labor exploitation and climate change
As temperatures soar in the United States this summer, some among us are lucky enough to be able to remain in air-conditioned interior spaces, ordering food, groceries, clothing, and other products to be delivered to us.
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Jens Stoltenberg’s global vision encourages conflict, militarization, and historical amnesia
Recent Foreign Affairs article unmasks NATO’s view on the shifting tides of global power.
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120 years of Du Bois’s ‘Souls of Black Folk’: Education and Progress in “of the Meaning of Progress.”
Aristotle famously starts his Metaphysics with the claim that “all men by nature desire to know.” For Dubois, if there are a people in the U.S. who have immaculately embodied this statement, it is black folk.
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Renewing political Marxism
REVIEW OF ISABELLE GARO’S “COMMUNISM AND STRATEGY”
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Anxious about the climate? there’s a solution
Mental health challenges are rising alongside temperatures. Research suggests that taking action can help.
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There are enough resources in the World to fulfill human needs, but not enough resources to satisfy capitalist greed: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2023)
Neither the BRICS project nor China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are military threats; both are essentially South-South commercial developments (along the grain of the agenda of the UN Office for South-South Cooperation).
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Government health financing for all, not insurance
To achieve universal health coverage, all people need access to public healthcare. This should be an entitlement for all, regardless of means, requiring adequate long term sustainable financing.