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The central ideological and political problem for the U.S. employer class after 1945 was how to accomplish the undoing of the New Deal and the United...
After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer class—the capitalists—faced overlapping threats, both domestic and foreign. On the
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating...
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating
Israel tried to operate settler colonialism on the pattern of earlier European settler colonialisms established around the world. That effort linked...
My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment...
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing...
Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating contradictions overwhelm existing...
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and...
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and...
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic...
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic...
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total...
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,...
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,...
From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed....
From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed....
In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President Emmanuel Macron, he said he...