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COVID, Capitalism, and Genocide
Alyson Escalante, September 4, 2021
Is the current legal definition of genocide useful for Marxists? Alyson Escalante unpacks the history behind the concept as it is currently understood and argues that a Marxist understanding of genocide must move beyond legalistic bourgeois definitions that rely on intent and look at the realities of systemic dispossession and extermination. Read Article.
Is This Sweat, or Am I Crying?: A Worker's History of Farm and Food in the United States
Taylor Thornburg, January 13, 2022
Taylor Thornburg traces the history of capitalist agriculture from its origin in English feudalism, through the development of 'New World' slavery and Southern sharecropping, to its contemporary industrial integration with the U.S. fast food industry. As Thornburg details, through it all, farm and food workers have fought back against one of the most viciously reactionary stratum of capital, the agricultural landowners. Read Article.
