Álvaro de Regil Castilla interviews John Bellamy Foster. In the interview, de Regil Castilla and Foster discuss the existential risk to humanity presented by the ongoing planetary crisis wrought by capitalism and its endlessly destructive impacts on society and the earth. What would an ecosocialist movement look like? How do we pursue an equitable and sustainable path toward the development of all, rather than the privileged few? Do we still have time to organize to save the planet—and indeed, all of humanity?
Abstract:The writer explains the concept of "insurgent utopianism" with the intent to contribute to collective protest movements. Topics include the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, police abolition, an online publishing platform called Project 2052, utopianism and Marxist critique, critique of social justice as planning,...
M. E. O' Brien· The Massachusetts review· 0 citations
This article examines Fidel Castro’s revolutionary thought and practice as a contribution to the critique of political economy and socialist transformation. Through the dialectical relationship between politics and economics, it addresses the overcoming of alienation, social ownership, and self-emancipation as foundati...
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
This article is an adaptation of the Acton Institute’s 2025 Calihan Lecture, presented by Novak Award winner Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug. Drawing on C. S. Lewis and Albert Camus, Birkhaug argues that contemporary American politic culture suffers from a shortage of true rebels—those who pursue truth instead of embracing i...
Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug· Journal of Markets & Mor...· 0 citations
This essay is a brief analysis of the 1850 daguerreotypes of seven enslaved Black individuals through the lens of the work of Brent Dean Robbins in metabletics, objectivist epistemology, and anesthetic culture. It blends themes from Black history hermeneutics, the hermeneutics of human dignity, and ontological liberati...
Nichelle N. Lewis· Journal of humanistic psycho...· 0 citations
: American historians, Huggins charged, have conspired with the founders to treat racial slavery and oppression, not as fundamental parts of the system, but as aberrations which would be corrected as the nation strode towards its destiny. Thus, our national history “continued to amplify the myths of automatic progress,...
E. Hammonds· Bulletin of The History of M...· 0 citations
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