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No Other Choice Is Another Masterpiece by Park Chan-wook

Eileen Jones Jacobin
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 Jacobin
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 Jacobin
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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The Mostest Anarchist

Paul Buhle Portside
These days “anarchism” has become an official swear word. A little history should help. Only with the middle of the 19th century does something clearly and (somewhat) strategically emerge as “anarchism” — competing with Marxism to overcome capitalism

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Next Sohee Is Korean Cinema at Its Bleak and Brilliant Best

Kap Seol Jacobin
Behind South Korea’s economic growth, there’s a system that grinds workers to the bone at every stage of the life cycle, from high school students to retirees. The film Next Sohee dramatizes the impact of that system to devastating effect.

Friday Nite Videos | October 24, 2025

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Over Half of Democrats Have ‘Positive View of Socialism.’ We Asked Trump Voters About Grocery Prices. Could Cleverly Sliced Paper Revolutionize Human Waste? A House of Dynamite | Movie Trailer. Concerned New Yorker Rhonda LaCenzo on Zohran Mamdani.
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