How American Tech Made China an Economic Superpower
Apple in China tells the incredible story of China’s industrial development through the lens of America’s most iconic tech giant.
Manufacturing & Reindustrialization
Intel, Trump, and the Future of Bidenomics
Trump just announced a partial nationalization of one of America’s biggest tech giants. This is not contrary to Biden-era industrial policy but an extension of it, as well as an opportunity for greater public control over private capital.
The Responsible Socialism of Adolph Germer
Adolph Germer was a mineworker, socialist, and lifelong labor organizer who believed that organizing strategy must be both ambitious and practical. He adopted this orientation because he knew first hand both how difficult it was to win and how devastating it could be for workers when they lost.
A Green New Trade Policy
Neoliberal free trade agreements in the 90’s dealt a crushing blow to the working class. The Left should learn the lessons of that period and support targeted tariffs paired with other industrial policies.
Class Divides in the Politics of Building
The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about.
The Utopia We Deserve
The anti-utopian utopianism of the early- to mid-twentieth century eschewed flights of fancy for concrete world-building. Now we are stuck between a dystopianism that promises an end and a utopianism that does the same.
We Can’t Foreclose Grubbing Analysis
In logistics, we can still copy much of the 1930’s targeted organizing strategies, but we need a more sophisticated understanding of distributional relations and technologies. The death of chokepoint analysis has been greatly exaggerated.
