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How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Some recent data
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas.
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A new mood in the world will put an end to the Global Monroe Doctrine: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
No war in recent years–not even the ‘shock and awe’ campaign used by the United States against Iraq in 2003–has been as ruthless in its use of force.
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We are Spartacus
Julian and David are Spartacus. The Palestinians are Spartacus. People who fill the streets with flags and principle and solidarity are Spartacus. We are all Spartacus if we want to be.
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The dystopian AI future some fear is the present-day reality others live
Whether you’re reading the news or watching a movie, you are likely to encounter some form of warning or buzz about AI.
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On the perpetration of mass-death events
The holocaust now visited on Palestine by U.S./Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless.
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The issue is not racism but the Pan European White Supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy!
Racism should not be thought of as a matter of personal feeling or opinion, but of an exploitative system that is hundreds of years old.
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The intimate embrace between Liberalism and the Far Right: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2023)
One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy.
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Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders
A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are investigating and urging people to contact Crime Stoppers if they have any “information in relation to the incident”.
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Averting a rendezvous with disaster
‘Cultural environmentalism’ alone will not solve the climate crisis, as, couched in the language of passivity, it avoids the urgent need for planned and targeted action, says ZOLTAN ZIGEDY.
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People across the globe disrupt “business as usual” for Palestine
International actions organized in solidarity with Palestine demanded an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza and an end to all aid to Israel.
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Three waves of historical fascism
Though much marxist theory has explored the recurrent cycles and patterns of historical capitalism, not enough attention has been given to the tendency of moments of politico-economic crisis to become an ideological contestation between fascism and communism in the context of a crisis of liberalism.
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Marx and Critical Social Ontology: Learning from the later Lukács feat. Michael J. Thompson
The purpose of Marxist theory is not only to diagnose the negative forces and effects of capitalist society; emphasis must also be placed on the need for social transformation that would enhance human progress at the social and individual level.
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How the International Monetary Fund continues to shrink the poorer Nations: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2023)
At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we continue to monitor the IMF’s impact on developing economies, including in our new dossier, How the International Monetary Fund Is Squeezing Pakistan (October 2023).
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Tearing down the cubicle: Organising with Gen-Z office workers
Hate your office job? Overwhelmed by late capitalist society? Feel like you’re slipping into fatalism? Nathan Ó Broin has some tips on how to overcome your alienation.
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Mass rallies in support of Gaza continue with momentum
The world stands up for Palestine in the face of Israeli atrocities and massacres without fear of oppression despite all efforts by many governments to suppress any anti-“Israel” public expression.
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Common sense solutions for collapse
Humanity faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions–a double-edged sword threatening both our planet and its people.
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How capitalism killed nutrition
Review of ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken.
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The Global 1933
The barbarism of consumption based on the death of others leads us to an unprecedented rise of fascism, and thus to the death of democracy and freedom. It is barbarism, or global 1933, as I call it. 1933 was the year when Hitler rose to power.
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Class Leaders and ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism’
The basic aim of ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy”’ is to bring class back into thinking about capitalism and alternatives.
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Karl Marx’s “degrowth communism”?
A review of ‘Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism’, Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022)