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The Collapse of the State, the Birth of Society: Iran
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-the-state-the-birth-of-society-iran/
Published: February 23, 2026 20:24
What is happening in Iran is not a “crisis.” A crisis implies a state of temporary imbalance. In Iran, however, what is collapsing is not a temporary order, but a historical political ontology. The popular movement that began in Rojhilat (East) Kurdistan…
The Power of Power Structure Research
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-power-of-power-structure-research/
Published: February 21, 2026 13:32
Today, it’s almost taken for granted that activist campaigns and organizing drives, including within the labor movement, have some form of a power research component to help shape strategy and tactics. But this wasn’t always the case. In the 1960s, power…
What Marx Tells Us About Why Gen Z Revolutions Failed
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-marx-tells-us-about-why-gen-z-revolutions-failed/
Published: February 18, 2026 05:09
Extreme inequality, precarious labour, corporate power and political alienation have intensified rather than receded in the era of late capitalism. Karl Marx’s importance lies in his method of analysing society through material relations, class power and…
Politics Is Everywhere, So Why Do People Feel So Powerless?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/politics-is-everywhere-so-why-do-people-feel-so-powerless/
Published: February 17, 2026 17:15
Halfway through his acclaimed novel Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico inserts a particularly revealing episode. It is 2015 and Anna and Tom are both graphic designers, working in one of Berlin’s trendiest neighborhoods. Their comfortable life is suddenly…
Up For Grabs: Polycrisis 2.0
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/up-for-grabs-polycrisis-2-0/
Published: February 16, 2026 20:54
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting crises that aggravated each other and made solutions appear impossible. In the year since the inauguration of Donald…
Liberal Class Compromise: A Devil’s Bargain
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberal-class-compromise-a-devils-bargain/
Published: February 13, 2026 19:21
‘Of course there’s class warfare,’ US billionaire Warren Buffet once quipped in The New York Times, ‘but it’s our class that’s making war, and we’re winning.’1 This truism of respectable middle-class politics reflects the class-consciousness of the Haves…
From Historical Blockage to Radical Rupture: The Ontological Revolution of Socialism
Published: February 9, 2026 16:44
The intellectual framework of new socialism gains meaning through the transcendence of the three main pillars of modernity: statism, industrialism, and hierarchical rationality. These three pillars have been reproduced in different forms throughout…
Is Trumpism Fascism? Reflections on Leon Trotsky’s “Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It”
Published: January 27, 2026 17:45
“The […] United States working class is [in] very many important respects […] the most progressive working class of the world.” Leon Trotsky wrote these words in 1944 not as flattery, but as a warning against fatalism. His essays on fascism were born from…
Why People Vote for Trump – 10 Ideologies
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Published: January 23, 2026 17:30
One of the most challenging questions of democracy might indeed be: why did so many people vote for Adolf Hitler even though he acted against their interests? Virtually the same can be said for those who voted for Brexit in the UK, voted for Germany’s…
Does the Unthinkable Happen?
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Published: January 20, 2026 17:00
Modern history is replete with events so extraordinary, aberrant, revolting, and surprising that one feels like exclaiming: how is this possible!? Normally, this exclamation, as a generalized phenomenon, does not arise at the moment such events take place,…