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Kim Moody reviews John Womack Jr.'s book "Labor Power and Strategy" and responses to his contributions, focused on the significance of workers' positional power in labor struggles.

David Graeber Bullshit Jobs A Theory May 15, 2018, originally published. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many...

In the past, degrowth advocates have demonstrated why capitalism and economic growth are ill-equipped to solve socio-ecological crises and outlined what a degrowth future would look like.

In the ideological disciplines—the humanities and social sciences—it is rare to come across a theoretical work that doesn’t seem to fetishize verbiage and jargonizing for their own sake. From the relatively lucid analytical Marxism of an Erik Olin Wright ((See Russell Jacoby’s savage review of Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias entitled “Real Men Find Real Utopias,”