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The socialist principle

Patrick Wolfe and David Lloyd (UC-Riverside): Settler Colonial Logics and the Neo-liberal Regime. Christian Angelich (Minnesota): Financial Speak: A Method to Unmask Neoliberal Capitalism and the Ideology of Perpetual. Alfredo Macias Vazquez (Leon) and Pablo Alonso Gonzalez (Cambridge): Knowledge Economy and the Commons: A Theoretical and Political Approach to Post-neoliberal Common Governance. Neoliberalism poisons everything: Elias Isquith interviews Wendy Brown, author of Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. Kean Birch on how to think like a neoliberal. Stephen Dunne interviews Will Davies, author of The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition. Peter Jones (ANU): The Falling Rate of Profit and the Great Recession. E.A. Brett on explaining the capitalist crisis: The case for a free market system is undermined by commonly observed scale economies; producing uneven development and inequality. Fracketeering: Ian Marton on how capitalism is power-hosing the last drops of value out of us all. Robert Appelbaum on why cannibalism is not really that good a metaphor for capitalism. You can download A Commodified World? Mapping the Limits of Capitalism by Colin Williams (2004).

Will Davies (Goldsmiths): The Return of Social Government: From “Socialist Calculation” to “Social Analytics”. Pablo Gilabert (Concordia): The Socialist Principle “From Each According to Their Abilities, to Each According to Their Needs”. Social commons: Francine Mestrum on reconciling social protection and basic income. Kemal Dervis on a new birth for social democracy. An excerpt from Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross. How socialism fails: Bradley Birzer reviews The End of Socialism by James R. Otteson. “Anarchism could help to save the world”: State socialism has failed, so has the market — we need to rediscover the anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin. Dana Williams (Cal State-Chico): Social Capital in Anarchist Movements. From Dialogues in Human Geography, Simon Springer (Victoria): Why a Radical Geography Must Be Anarchist; and For Anarcho-Geography! Or, Bare-Knuckle Boxing As the World Burns. David Harvey (CUNY): “Listen, Anarchist!” A Personal Response to Simon Springer’s “Why a Radical Geography Must Be Anarchist” (and a response by Springer). Alf Nilsen on Marxism and social movements in the twilight of neoliberalism; and on Marxism and movements: Making our own history.

Jason W. Moore (Binghamton): Cheap Food and Bad Climate: From Surplus Value to Negative Value in the Capitalist World-Ecology. How are we to think the anthropocene? Slavoj Zizek reviews Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene by McKenzie Wark. Brendan McQuade (DePaul): Cognitive Capitalism and Contemporary Politics: A World Historical Perspective. Markus Kienscherf (FU): Beyond Militarization and Repression: Liberal Social Control as Pacification. Francesco Macheda (Bifrost): The Political Economy of Nationalism and Racial Discrimination. Pritam Singh (Oxford Brookes): The Competing Theories of Development and Underdevelopment: A Critical Evaluation from an Eco-Socialist Perspective. Mark Gawne (Sydney): Ontology, Composition and Affect: The Political Limits of Postworkerist Thought. Don’t you just hate it when those fake-ass poseur environmentalists rip off your intersectionality? Amber Frost on not attending the Left Forum, a “Comic Con for Marxists — Commie Con, if you will — and an absolute shitshow of nerds and social rejects, all competing for the title of Most Insufferable Anti-Capitalist”. You can download Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics by Jeremy Gilbert (2008).