Gender, sexuality and the family are key for global far right politics. As a political formation, the far right gathers its intense , unpredictable energy through appeals to desire, rage, and ...

Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre What is crucial to understand is that the autonomization of society and the domination of people by things ...

…Dworkin delivers her chilling verdict: “the revenge rape of male Israeli soldiers in captivity is part of the fear, part of the hate, that drives the Israeli fear of annihilation.” It’s her ...

Twenty-first century China is capitalist. This represents a dramatic transformation for a country that had basically eliminated private ownership of the means of production by the end of the 1950s, ...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the cutting edge of what I suggest we call reactionary decarbonization. It is reactionary because it represents a defensive recalibration of the fossil energy ...

No coarser insult, no baser aspersion, can be thrown against the workers than the remark: Theoretic controversies are only for academicians. In other words, absolute certainty is impossible. The ...

Like many cities in the U.S. Southwest, El Paso, Texas is a city brimming with monuments to its rich history of conquest and plunder. 1 This work is indebted to my conversations, interviews and time ...

During the 2016 Democratic primary campaign, Hillary Clinton challenged Bernie Sanders with this line: “if we broke up the banks tomorrow… would that end racism?” The unspoken part of the message ...

We are proud to have a strong analytical focus on social reproduction here at Spectre. The current pandemic is tragically proving that to which social reproduction theorists have long drawn attention: ...

The combination of the pandemic, sharp global recession, inflation, and interest rate hikes by central banks has triggered a new debt crisis throughout the Global South. The United Nations recently ...

It is no secret that the US left is confused about how to respond to the rise of China. There is broad and justified opposition to Biden’s continuation of Trumpian efforts at containment, most ...

Though capitalist societies are plagued by poor mental well-being, mental illness remains a highly contested concept, earning an ambiguous status. That poor mental health exists as something real is ...