A. Philip Randolph on Labor Day and Racial Justice
A. Philip Randolph was one of the most prominent civil rights and labor leaders of the twentieth century. Here his Labor Day address at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in 1967 is reprinted in full.
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In Defense of Industrial Agriculture
A serious socialist agricultural policy would reject the pastoral utopian dreams of organic agriculture, while demanding that industrial agriculture, like all industry, be placed under democratic ownership.
Are You My Customer?
Recent service industry hero tales like The Menu, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Bear are not crafted for the people whose work they romanticize, but for their bosses, managers and customers. What message are these stories meant to deliver?
Cash Dreaming
Welfare for Markets examines the various political, economic, social, and ideological transformations that allowed basic income to be dressed up as a smart idea. Today, rather than succumb to the dominance of money, we should resume an older conversation about the collective determination of needs.
What’s In Our First Print Issue
The opening editorial of our first print issue, “Building Big Things.”
How Capitalism Underwrote Its Own Stability in the Cold War
Fritz Bartel’s The Triumph of Broken Promises enhances our empirical understanding of why the Cold War ended when and how it did. But his book contains an ambivalent account of the importance of ideology in East and West that raises questions about its causal story.
Patrolling Class Theory
A new crop of academic critics treat working-class differentiation as a theoretical conclusion rather than as a point of departure. This is a profoundly cynical position that obscures the true sources of defeat: working-class atomization and resignation.
