Author: Chris Wright
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Classes and Politics: Common Sense in the Form of Theory
A review of The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber. Harvard University Press, 2022. 224 pp. In the politically contested disciplines – the humanities and … Keep reading »
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If Unions Had Organized the South, Could Trump Have Been Avoided?
At a time when activists and commentators are puzzling over the United States’ enduring conservatism, Michael Goldfield’s new book The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and … Keep reading »
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Popular Radicalism in the 1930s
The History of the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill At a time when unemployment is skyrocketing in the US and millions of out-of-work Americans have been abandoned by the federal government, it … Keep reading »
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Existential Despair
Decades ago, Edward Said remarked that contemporary life is characterized by a “generalized condition of homelessness.” Decades earlier, Martin Heidegger had written that “Homelessness is coming to be the destiny … Keep reading »
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Manifestos and Socialisms for the 21st Century
A review of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Keep reading »