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Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’

Ashley Dawson Los Angeles Review of Books
Kohei Saito’s new book offers a compelling account of Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker.

Tidbits-Apr 2-Reader Comments: More War, Cuts to Social Safety Net; on the “Left” Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community As Strategy: 10 Ways To Create Belonging, Power; Teaching Antifascist History

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Reader Comments: More War, More Cuts to Social Safety Net; On the "Left" Criticism of No Kings 3; More States Taxing the Ultra-Rich; Happy Farm-Workers Day; Community as Strategy: 10 Ways to create belonging and power; Teaching Antifascist History...

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We Uncovered the Most Infamous Secret Society. Welcome the Stranger | Zohran Mamdani. The Uncomfortable Truth About Ozempic. Come to Jesus Moment | The Midnight Republic. The Story of Capital | David Harvey.

The Story of Capital | David Harvey

Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work. Now in The Story of Capital his work becomes accessible to the general reader.

Democratic Excellence

Corey Robin The New York Review of Books
Among Zohran Mamdani’s rhetorical innovations has been his declaration of war on mediocrity.

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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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Marx’s Last Studies

Charles Reitz Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
Between 1879 and 1882, Marx studied the latest research and writing on communal clan-based social formations around the globe, focusing on the changing nature of land ownership and gender and family relations within these societies.

Marx in America: The Fourth Boom

Devin Thomas O’Shea Los Angeles Review of Books
Hartman is a Gen X Marxist, pilled by the revolutionary politics of Rage Against the Machine. “Until the freedom of some no longer required the unfreedom of others,” he writes, “Marx would carry on, no matter how ... his enemies try to erase him."
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