Contra Contra
What does it mean to actually want power?
Moderate leftists like Contrapoints say radicals skeptical of electoralism don't really want power. But what if real power looks like a socialist keiretsu?
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Geopolitics of the Sahel
Recent coups in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso have produced the Alliance of Sahelian States (AES). Why is it aligning with Russia?
Hungry to break free from the ruthless grip of the CFA franc, new dictatorships in the Sahel have become literal gold mines for Russia.
Biding Time
Bidenomics vs. the green industrial policy we deserve
Bidenomics is catching on in Europe but cost the Democrats the election. A socialist view says: it failed by not going far enough.
The Resilience of Order Flow
How do financial markets really work? Let's demystify Wall Street with market microstructure
Everyone asks at some point or another: how does the stock market work? Thanks to the order flow theorists, we now have the definitive account.
Capitalism Storms the Heavens
The coming decades will see the rise of new space industries – and new labor issues
Commercial spaceflight isn't just a toy for oligarchs. The new space industries will present socialists with new challenges — and opportunities.
Beyond Ethnostatism
The Austro-Marxists’ solution to “class vs. identity” was a politics of cultural autonomy
The Austro-Marxists are nearly forgotten. Could their policy of national cultural associations hold lessons for intersectional socialists today?
From Issue 3
Can Technology Save Us?
The Left’s wires are crossed about technology. We hack away at the Gordian knot.
Light bulb cartels, technocratic cults, world-wide web, world-ending nukes: would a socialism that takes tech seriously be for it or against it?
The Socio-Material Lens
The economy as seen through its physical processes and social interactions
The economy isn't about money. Properly understood, it's the dynamic socio-material interaction of constructed rituals with production processes.
Beyond Athens and Jerusalem
Far-right intellectuals love to steal left-wing economic ideas. But what’s their real agenda?
"National conservatives" and "neoreactionaries" on the far right are paying lip service to leftist economics. But their deep motive is a hatred of democracy.
