Left Populism, Why Not? (part two)
Why does the Left pretend to be populist? The Populist Moment cites three reasons. Each reason flags something big that the Left can and should change.
Left Populism, Why Not? (part one)
Borriello and Jager’s The Populist Moment explains brilliantly how and why the Left in rich states has decided to pretend to be populist.
Liberal Democracy Is Limited. Fight For Democracy Instead.
Why settle for liberal democracy? Why not left-led campaigns for More and Better Democracy? LD#1: This is the first of a series.
What Is Democracy Without Equality of Results?
Liberal democracy is under threat. What kind of democracy should the left fight for? Astra Taylor has both answers and questions.
Social Movements Will Not Free Us (part three)
A strengthened ‘civil society’ will not win anyone’s liberation. Popular struggles will, if we Agitate, Educate and Organize so people see the Left Alternative.
Social Movements Will Not Free Us (part two)
Does ‘strengthening (a) civil society’ of voluntary associations gradually improve liberal democracy ‘from below’? It is conventional wisdom. But mostly wrong.
Where Will the Post-2008 Left Go Next?
Since 2008, many people are disillusioned with capitalism. Keir Milburn says workplace experiences are more critical to this than many realize. Is he right? What does it imply about how we should organize?
Neoliberalism Really is Globalization After All
Hayekian neoliberalism is not really a new economics. Quinn Slobodian shows that it is a political movement to recolonize the world and undermine democracy.
A Ten Point Program To Unite the Global Left
The Left regularly succeeds in making clear what it is against. Here is a Ten Point Program that sums up what we are for.
Is a ‘Social Movement Society’ the Way to Win Democracy?
The Right is attacking liberal democracy. The neoliberal Center is gutting it. What can the Left do about it? Donatella della Porta has an idea.
Progressive International: Globalize the Left
Big business globalized and made the left play endless local defence. Progressive International aims to globalize a left that can go on offence.
A Cold War Against China is a Bad Idea
Aggressively expanding NATO led Russians to embrace Putin. Is isolating and encircling China really such a good idea?
Save Planet Earth with a Clean Energy Global Commons
Headlines everywhere trumpet the rapid expansion of clean energy. Joe Biden promises hundreds of thousands of green new jobs. Global warming will be averted after all, I guess. Except, as clean energy rises, carbon emissions continue to go up, way up, here there and everywhere. Why doesn’t an increase in clean energy cause a decrease in dirty energy? Andreas Malm explains why.
Has the Left Given Up on Ending Capitalism?
Is the age of left-wing revolutions over? Does this inevitably mean that the left has to accommodate itself to a capitalist economy and a capitalist world system? I firmly believe that the way forward to a more just society will be worked out incrementally by today’s left, especially by the left of that left who want to move society towards a new post-capitalist social system. But facts are facts, and right now the left is united around a set of sacrosanct principles that result in a refusal or incapacity to imagine practical ways of changing who is in power in society’s institutions.
