An interview with Jeff Goodwin by Jonah Birch
Jacobin
The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among many others — emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and its destructiveness for all workers.
Vance's Munich speech was a call to arms for the populist right to be able to seize power in Europe, and a promise that the “new sheriff in town” would help them to do so.
Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy was during the Biden Administration but were they relying on flawed statistics? Unemployment was higher, wages lower, growth less robust than was claimed.
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