Jubilee served as a fundamental touchstone for seventeenth-century English radicals and the eighteenth-century Atlantic working class. It provided a readily available language for a range of antinomian positions
[...] Think of the example often cited by Thomas Friedman: the California farmworker earning $14,000 a year who acquired a mortgage for a house worth $720,000. Instead of sniffing, as Friedman does, that such people should not be living in such houses, we should ask, “Why not?” In the absence of an…
it becomes startlingly clear that the longest-lasting strands of Marxist discourse are those grounded in defeat, hinging on the experience of one reversal aft er another. [...]
That is how we can approach, on one hand, the statement made by Perry Anderson when he relaunched the New Left Review…
Th ere is something positively schizo about the Jetztzeit: it could happen at any time, but it doesn’t happen until it happens, and even then it doesn’t just happen.
