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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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By Fredric Jameson (Posted Sep 26, 2024) History, MarxismLost & FoundFeatured, Fredric Jameson This essay was originally published in Monthly Review 47, no. 11 (April 1996). ~ (Dedicated to the memory of William Pomerance) First Thesis “Postmarxisms” regularly emerge at those moments in which capitalism itself undergoes a structural metamorphosis. Marxism is the science of capitalism, or better still, in…
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ByBen Wray The US has built up an elaborate machinery for waging economic warfare on its rivals with little or no public debate. This sanctions-industrial complex is a disguised form of imperialism and a dangerous source of global instability. Shawn Fain Review of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman…
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Like a river undisturbed while traversing a rocky wilderness, China silently flows away on its path to peaceful primacy. Leading website Guancha has published the transcript of a first-class lecture at Renmin University on China-U.S. relations by Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World. Jacques is one of the very few Westerner scholars with on the…
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