Laboring Under an Illusion
“Post-work” Marxism aims to liberate us from the coercion of wage labor. But without a program for reorganizing production, it can only return us to the tyranny of the market.
Articles by: Anton Jäger
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Anton Jäger is a doctoral student at Cambridge University.
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On the Front Lines of the Populism Wars
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21st Century Americanism
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The Myth of “Populism”
It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.