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Reforming Capitalism Is Not Enough

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Published: June 9, 2026 16:31

Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in 1856, the stonemasons and building workers of Melbourne downed their tools and marched for the eight-hour day — eight hours of…

Visiting Time Past: What is to be Undone?

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Published: June 9, 2026 16:30

I was recently surveying my computer’s contents and I came across the text of a book I had written over a half century ago. It was published in 1974 by a small progressive publisher named for its founder, Porter Sargent, located in Boston Mass. I turned, I…

No Babies? Blame Capitalism.

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Published: June 4, 2026 15:55

No longer just a problem of the industrialized North, birth rates are declining for everyone, everywhere, all at once. In its panic about the implications of below-replacement fertility and its search for a culprit, the global commentariat has cast a wide…

Gandhi, Meet the Frankfurt School and Habermas: Bridging the Gap Between Personal Ethics and Structural Change

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gandhi-meet-the-frankfurt-school-and-habermas-bridging-the-gap-between-personal-ethics-and-structural-change/

Published: June 4, 2026 15:47

One of the central problems of modern social and political thought concerns the relationship between personal morality and social transformation. Most people understand morality primarily as an individual matter: telling the truth, treating others kindly,…

Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction

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Published: June 3, 2026 18:50

In our youth there were certain books that stood out and left a lasting impression on us. At the time, these books seemed to change our entire lives, young as our lives were. One would-be genius told me she was 8 years old when she read Montesquieu. I…

When Principle Meets Practice: A Left-Wing Critique From the Inside

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Published: June 3, 2026 18:49

Is it enough for a politician to say the right thing? Or is genuine credibility also measured by what one does in front of others in daily life? On 27 May 2026, the left-wing newspaper Dagbladet Information published a short opinion piece by me under the…

Resistance is Only Half the Equation

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Published: June 2, 2026 16:00

We no longer live in a world where courts reliably enforce limits on executive power; where media calls out abuse as abuse or where politicians depend on legitimacy to hold power. These conditions are eroding, and power is becoming more and more…

Writing and Talking to Whom, Why and to What End

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Published: May 26, 2026 16:00

Imagine you have considerable background as a progressive or revolutionary activist. You are a good communicator about war and peace, fascist trends, class, race, and gender injustices. You also know global warming, ecological crises, and the causes of…

Social Reproduction, Memory And The Far Right

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Published: May 24, 2026 13:04

For the last 50 years, every institution in Chile’s public sector has told us over and over again that individuals succeed through their own efforts. We’ve been told the family, “the fundamental nucleus of society,” as stated in the current…