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[...] however "radical" we might imagine our politics, we must recognize ourselves in it. If we cannot see in it the actual material and social constraints experienced by real living individuals and groups in their everyday attempts to make and remake a way to be in the world, then we will never fi…

On the contrary, the explanation is far more straightforward: capital won. Sometimes with armies, sometimes with persuasion, sometimes with money, and sometimes by accident, but it won. For at least the last thirty or forty years, and this is increasingly true in nominally "noncapitalist" nation-st…

[...] remember that southern Europeans are often "racially" subordinated in Europe, similar to the way in which African Americans are positioned in the US: they are coded as lazy, dishonest, and biologically inferior even and sometimes most in their own countries [...]

[...] the main ideologues and beneficiaries of neoliberalization managed, amazingly, to spin the collapse they precipitated into a story about the profligate irresponsibility and unrealistic expectations of workers, students, and the unemployed. The massive holes in every capitalist nations public …

[...] (Investment bankers like to say "distribute" the risk, since they see their primary social function, the "good" they do in the world, as that of "distributing" risk to those who can bear it. We can see now how well this works, and how valuable this "social function" is. In practice, it is mer…