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The Fallout Series Hits Close to Home

Devin Thomas O’Shea Convergence
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.

film

Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy

Eileen Jones Convergence
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.

film

No Other Choice Is Another Masterpiece by Park Chan-wook

Eileen Jones Convergence
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice is a shocking, innovative, and darkly comic film about the pressures of life under capitalism. It’s more proof that the Oldboy director is nothing less than a cinematic master.

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Not in Our Name

David Alpaugh
Poet David Alpaugh satirizes the bait-and-switch of corporate capitalism.

Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

Nelson Lichtenstein Convergence
Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism

Vivek Chibber, Melissa Naschek Convergence
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergenc
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