Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“It is a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth….no one must suppose that coal thus saved is spared-it is only saved from one use to be employed in others”.
Beyond God and state, it’s money that rules. Can we still imagine alternatives?
Starkman explains why journalists often aren’t alert watchdogs, but he can’t see why limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is, quite literally, a dead-end.
Crises are essential to the reproduction of capitalism.
There has been no fundamental reshaping, anywhere, of the market machine, however loud its critics have become.
What are we to make of Monsanto’s sponsoring of organic school gardens? Of local food bike tours made possible by Pepsi?
Africa, Latin America and Asia, they are supposed to be societies on a particular trajectory of history … they are all supposed to be trying to be in the future what Europe and North America are today. So, in that sense, technically there are no options open to them in the future.
As David Harvey has noted, and as the ongoing emerging market panic confirms, capitalism never solves its crises — it merely moves them around geographically.
I’m fond of books that don’t claim to have The Answer but instead are useful guides in our search for answers.
Current events illustrate the potential unintended consequences of subordinating market-based cooperative organizing into economic planning…
Chris Hedges and Greg Grandin both call on Melville’s Moby-Dick to bring us commentary on the crisis of our civilization.
As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and "institutional elements," on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the other.
