Timo Bohm (Mannheim): Activists in Politics: The Influence of Embedded Activists on the Success of Social Movements. Eduardo Romanos (Complutense): From Tahrir to Puerta del Sol to Wall Street: The Transnational Diffusion of Social Movements in Comparative Perspective. What’s in a movement’s name? Since coalition-building has moved online, the definition of activism has changed. Jennifer Hunter interviews Micah White, author of The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution (and more). Paul Buhle and Alec Hudson on how the revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today. Does capitalism have a future? Wolfgang Streeck, Craig Calhoun, Polly Toynbee, and Amitai Etzioni debate. Power to the pixels: Chris Lehmann reviews Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason.
Bhaskar Sunkara on how socialists want a world without private property — but you can keep your Kenny Loggins records. Gar Alperovitz on how socialism in America is closer than you think: Experiments with public ownership are thriving across the country — the challenge is to link them and scale them up. Karl Marx to the rescue: Frustrated and emasculated, many Americans blame “capitalism” for their woes, but what they really hate is America’s neo-feudalism, in its modern-day, crony capitalist form.
