Abstract:The writer explains the concept of "insurgent utopianism" with the intent to contribute to collective protest movements. Topics include the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, police abolition, an online publishing platform called Project 2052, utopianism and Marxist critique, critique of social justice as planning, and a general call to action for community and political organizing.
In response to the essay by members of the KU Leuven project “Dissenting Church,” I argue that they overlook the metaphysics underlying much of the church’s twentieth-century thought on tradition, leading to unnecessary dichotomies, such as whether tradition changes or is unchanging.
Nayib Bukele’s presidency has transformed El Salvador into an electoral autocracy by systematically dismantling democratic institutions, subverting the constitution, and consolidating power under his New Ideas party. In response, grassroots collectives of victims’ families engage in quiet, poignant acts of defiance, pr...
A book review essay of The Apocalypse of John and Liberation Theology in Africa, by Humphrey Mwangi Waweru (Lanham, Maryland, USA: Lexington Books, 2024).
Since returning to the presidency in 2012, Vladimir Putin has sought to transform Russia’s political system from performance-based authoritarianism toward a more ideologically driven, quasi-totalitarian model. Drawing on Slavophile traditions, the regime frames its confrontation with the West as a civilizational strugg...
Álvaro de Regil Castilla interviews John Bellamy Foster. In the interview, de Regil Castilla and Foster discuss the existential risk to humanity presented by the ongoing planetary crisis wrought by capitalism and its endlessly destructive impacts on society and the earth. What would an ecosocialist movement look like?...
This article examines Fidel Castro’s revolutionary thought and practice as a contribution to the critique of political economy and socialist transformation. Through the dialectical relationship between politics and economics, it addresses the overcoming of alienation, social ownership, and self-emancipation as foundati...
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