China's Green Development is Both Anti-Imperialist and Socialist
China has become the global vanguard of green industrial development. National sovereignty has been a major consideration in this green push. And it wouldn't be possible without governing capital.
Behind Western Marxists’ misunderstanding about multipolarity hides Eurocentrism
With the world situation shifting in a favourable direction for the Global South (the third world), the concept of multipolarity has recently become the centre of discussion on the left.
Today is Earth Overshoot Day.
But “humanity” did not collectively decide to consume the equivalent of 1.73 Earths. A subsistence farmer, a fossil-fuel corporation and a billionaire crossing the planet by private jet are not equally responsible.
Blaming humanity is politically convenient. It turns a coercive system into the moral failure of an imagined collective subject.
The deeper contradiction is temporal: between the clock of capital and the times of life.
Forests must grow, soils must recover, aquifers must refill and bodies must rest. Capital measures them all by a single clock: the accelerating rhythm of accumulation.
When the time of profit and expansion is imposed upon the time of regeneration, every delay becomes a barrier and the future becomes fuel.
The Earth does not overshoot itself. Capital does.
New essay on The Ecosocialist.
The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Wonderfully Untranslatable Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions
Language is the chalice we lift to our lips to taste our own experience — a vessel that constrains what it contains by giving it its own shape. The more complex our experience, the more muddl…
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.