Tag: Capitalism

No Alternative to Capitalism

By John Foster
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Whoever said it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism (Slavoj Žižek and Frederic Jameson are both blamed,) it’s a quote that has legs because it’s true. (More…)

Mark Fisher Lives

By John Foster
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It’s tragically appropriate that Mark Fisher, whose work was so deeply engaged with the idea of hauntology, about the persistence of the past, should speak to us from beyond the grave. (More…)

Setting the Agenda

By John Foster
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Proportion explains a lot in life. This has become painfully obvious in the era of COVID-19 when the underlying sociopathy of the US president and of the party he leads can most clearly be seen in their signal failure to understand what the numbers mean. (More…)

Communism has been replaced by fascism. Student protestors, Hong Kong.

Beijing on the Brink

By Ernst Stetter
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The orchestration of Chinese politics by the Communist Party continues. But this year, the National People’s Party Congress was different. (More…)

Not listening to Pussy Riot. Vladimir Putin, November 2015.

Product of the System

By John Foster
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Everyone loves a good villain, especially one whose presence validates overlooking our own failings. (More…)

Neoliberalism is everywhere. Alexanderplatz, Berlin

Poor and Poorer

By John Foster
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Posted in Critical Times

The term “crisis” is applied all too freely in politics and journalism. It has become a common designation for the Coronavirus outbreak as well. (More…)

Collective Resilience

By Ernst Stetter
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The end of the tunnel is nowhere in sight. Coronavirus continues to infect the globe. (More…)

Rock Against Neoliberalism

By Charlie Bertsch
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When a band has been around as long as Wire, starting off a new record with the line “It’s nothing new” feels like a dare. (More…)

Britain in Fragments

By Charlie Bertsch
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Lee Gamble’s new almost-LP, Exhaust, is not easy to like. Every time one of its eight tracks seems to settle into a groove, it suddenly darts off in a different direction. The patterns that do repeat are usually too complicated to remember before the record has been played many times over. (More…)