Beyond November
Thoughts on politics, social movements, and the 2012 elections.
Marx wrote in The Civil War in France that every few years workers got to decide which members of the ruling class were to misrepresent them.
Working for the Weekend
Putting full employment at the center of a new left-wing strategy.
Last spring, as the U.S. economy entered another period of slowdown and unemployment levels in the Eurozone hit record highs, a Internet meme called “Old Economy Steven” started making rounds.
The War of Northern Aggression
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
On 6 November 1860, the six-year-old Republican Party elected its first president. During the tense crisis months that followed – the “secession winter” of 1860–61 – practically all observers believed that Lincoln and the Republicans would begin attacking slavery as soon as they took power.
Sarah Lawrence, With Guns
We asked a former West Point professor about teaching literature at the nation’s most prestigious military academy. What he told us revealed the truth behind the country’s most elite warrior caste – and how liberal heroes like Thoreau and the Beats inspire the next generation of “Runaway Generals.
Gimme the Loot
From Blackbeard to Kim Dotcom has piracy been a radical force?
American Jacobins
Why has the American left neglected this revolutionary inheritance?
Terror Verde
Of far more legitimate concern than the impending subversion of world order by greenwashed commie terrorists is, of course, that the fabrication of such threats contributes to a blanket delegitimization of environmental activism.
Eating for Change
In May, Michael Bloomberg proposed a ban on the sale of sugary beverages over 16 ounces. If it passes, New Yorkers with an urge for a deluge of high-fructose corn syrup and caramel coloring will be forced to purchase multiple puny 12-ounce beverages.
Breuckelen Gentry
While bad gentrifiers see themselves as having little impact on their environment – they are simply maximizing their own self-interest by getting a good deal in an up-and-coming neighborhood – good gentrifiers are supremely aware of their privileged place in the urban food chain, and sometimes even feel guilty about it.
Lincoln and Marx
Abraham lincoln, as president, chose to reply to an “Address” from the London-based Interna-tional Workingmen’s Association. The “Address,” drafted by Karl Marx, congratulated Lincoln on his reelection for a second term.
Issue 7-8: Emancipation
Issue 7-8
