The internet has robbed the world of much of its mystery and replaced it with the jaded cynicism of online grifters. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Cloud explores this bleak world dominated by people who just can’t log off.
He sees Dracula as fiction’s ultimate capitalist victimizer, exploiting the lifeforce of others for his own pleasure, whether financial or physical. But the vampire has been exploited by plenty of capitalists as well, especially those in the movies.
Harry Braverman’s arguments in his classic book Labor and Monopoly Capital presciently forecasted much of our present labor regime — and can help us move beyond it.
An interview with Jeff Goodwin by Jonah Birch
Convergence
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.
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