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BHASKAR SUNKARA, MIKE BEGGS, AND BEN BURGIS
Soviet-style planning delivered rapid industrial growth but collapsed under chronic shortages, bad incentives, and political sclerosis. Even partial market reforms, like Hungary’s New Economic Mechanism, could not overcome the system’s structural flaws. Socialism’s future lies in marrying democratic control and social ownership with the allocative power of markets.
CARO V. FIORIO, SIMON MOHUN, AND ROBERTO VENEZIANI
According to many on the Left, the set of feasible income distributions within a capitalist economy is tightly constrained by capitalists’ control over investment. Our empirical analysis of the postwar US economy raises significant doubts about this view. Class struggle and the power resources of the working class can affect the long-run distribution of incomes between classes.
AZIZ Z. HUQ
A functional analysis of the Supreme Court as a node within a larger project of hegemonic preservation, this essay clarifies the nature of judicial power and recalibrates the terms of the court reform debate by bringing it into conversation with a longer tradition of left theory.
NIVEDITA MAJUMDAR
This essay examines how cultural theory displaces capitalism in its accounts of the climate crisis. Contrasting Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island with Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible, I argue that their differing approaches reveal what much cultural analysis leaves unexamined: the structural ties between ecological breakdown and global capital.
STEVE FRASER
The ascendancy of the authoritarian right has generated a counterreaction on the part of the Left to restore the Popular Front that once confronted fascism. Although often led by the socialist left, the Popular Front was the…
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