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Capitalism Was Built on the Ruins of the Commons

Peter Linebaugh, Daniel Denvir Jacobin
The Industrial Revolution's chief product was not goods, but a new class of laborers who owned nothing and worked to survive. Historian Peter Linebaugh traces the creation of this working class through the violent enclosure of the commons they once r

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The Corporate Thriller Lied to Us

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Criterion Channel is hosting a retrospective on Hollywood’s “corporate thrillers” from the 1980s through the early 2000s. If anything, their message about the capitalist rot in America’s institutions looks far too tame for how the last couple of deca

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The Fallout Series Hits Close to Home

Devin Thomas O’Shea Jacobin
While streaming on Amazon is a little on the nose, the Fallout television series admirably embraces the anti-capitalist critique of the original video game franchise. Its apocalyptic alternate America feels less far-fetched every day.

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Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.
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