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Even in New York, Reporters Face Prison for Criticizing Israel https://jacobin.com/2026/02/wilkinson-israel-criticism-press-rights/ #socialism #marxism #leftist #MillMessenger #leftistnews

"In November 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, Queen Elizabeth visited the London School of Economics. In the course of this visit she asked the assembled economists why they had not seen the financial crisis coming. Not having any immediate answers, the economists consulted and ran seminars. Six months later they sent a collective letter to Her Majesty explaining that some mix of hubris and failure to confront systemic risks lay at the root of their failures. Neglecting systemic risks appears particularly egregious. Most of us would not choose to board an airplane that had not been checked for systemic risks.

My new book, The Story of Capital, seeks to interrogate the internal malfunctions and systemic risks within capital’s mode of production, but it does so with the aid of rather special theoretical tools drawn from Marx’s work on the political economy of capital. While Marx famously proclaimed that our aim should not be to understand the world but to change it, he put an enormous amount of time and effort into understanding that which he sought to change. Indeed, his practice suggests that he believed it vital to understand capital in order to change it."

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/02/marxism-can-still-change-the-world

#Marx #Marxism #Capitalism #PoliticalEconomy

Another Kingpin Falls, Nothing Changes https://jacobin.com/2026/02/el-mencho-mexico-cartels-us/ #socialism #marxism #leftist #MillMessenger #leftistnews

Just Think of Wuthering Heights as a Barbie Offshoot https://jacobin.com/2026/02/wuthering-heights-barbie-fennell-review/ #socialism #marxism #leftist #MillMessenger #leftistnews

Your Individual Boycotts Aren’t Helping https://jacobin.com/2026/02/individual-boycotts-collective-action-ice/ #socialism #marxism #leftist #MillMessenger #leftistnews

On Tariffs, Neil Gorsuch Is Hardly Apolitical https://jacobin.com/2026/02/gorsuch-supreme-court-apolitical-tariffs/ #socialism #marxism #leftist #MillMessenger #leftistnews

The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front https://jacobin.com/2026/02/interwar-popular-front-anti-fascism/ #socialism #marxism #leftist #MillMessenger #leftistnews

https://youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.

On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
12:37 Updating #Marxism
15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
24:54 Racism in America Today
28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
47:40 The Power of Boycotts
52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
1:01:30 On Pornography
1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants