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Gendering the World-System: Women, Class, and the Global Division of Labor
Published: September 18, 2026 15:35
Which World Does the Woman Question Belong To? The woman question cannot be explained within the bounds of a single nation or the gender relations of one society alone. Family structure, labor markets, wages, property, care work, migration, and the many…
AI & Deliberative Participation
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ai-deliberative-participation/
Published: September 15, 2026 16:00
One of the most common empty phrases about artificial intelligence (AI) is that it offers opportunities and challenges. Yet, AI can improve citizen participation when AI is not corrupted by large corporations using AI for profit. Interestingly, in May…
How the Despised Marxists Best Explained the Making of the Serbian Nation
Published: September 14, 2026 19:30
There is something almost paradoxical about the fate of the 1979 collection The Emergence and Development of the Serbian Nation. It grew out of a scholarly debate organized by the Marxist Centre of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of…
When AI Chooses What We Get to Choose
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/when-ai-chooses-what-we-get-to-choose/
Published: September 9, 2026 18:00
The Economist recently considered a quiet irony of modern travel: artificial intelligence promises a tailor-made journey just as tourism’s viral popularity funnels travelers toward the same suffocating choke points. Rather than directing everyone toward…
Slanted Cartography: the Politics of Mapping
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/slanted-cartography-the-politics-of-mapping/
Published: September 8, 2026 16:01
There is much in the nature of a map. The very drawing of a line signifies an assertion, an acceptance, or even a repudiation of power. Borders are delineated for reasons of interest and understanding. I chart, therefore it is. Areas of territorial dispute…
The Returnable Vote
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-returnable-vote/
Published: September 6, 2026 14:23
This is Part III of a three-part series. [Part I] [Part II] Around two thirds of the population of the world’s democracies surveyed don’t believe their democracy functions well . 62% think their nation is on the wrong track. Due to lack of accountability…
Labor Day Lessons: Can CIO Best Practices Aid Union Organizing Today?
Published: September 2, 2026 18:30
Industrial union building in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left. If organized labor in the U.S. could go from historic membership lows in the 1920s to an early 1950s peak union density of nearly one-third of all private…
Empire Without Flags, Part III: Power, Regulation, and Extraction Without Occupation
Published: September 2, 2026 18:25
This is the third and final part of the Empire Without Flags series. Part I examined Imperial Outreach through finance and institutions: debt, capital markets, civil society funding, and the production of consent. Part II examined the material…
Liberating Theory, Community
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-community/
Published: September 1, 2026 16:00
The following article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, which seven writer/activists collectively co-wrote. The seven authors were myself, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia Sargent, and Holly Sklar. After…
Failure to Represent
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/failure-to-represent/
Published: August 30, 2026 15:57
This is Part I of a three-part series. Why does representative democracy seem so broken that it is tempting to translate “Vox populi, vox dei,” (“Voice of the people, voice of god”) as “My god, how did we get into this mess?” One answer: most nominally…