How China Avoided a Soviet-Style Collapse
What have three decades of market reforms meant for the world’s largest working class?
14 Articles by: Daniel Zamora
Daniel Zamora is a postdoctoral sociologist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and Cambridge University. His book, Le Dernier Homme Et La Fin De La Révolution: Foucault après Mai 68 (The Last Man and the End of the Revolution: Foucault After May 68) coauthored with Mitchell Dean, will be published in English by Verso in 2020.
Liberalism Is as Bad as the Economist Makes It Sound
Liberalism is often presented as a loose set of principles like reason, freedom, and the rule of law. But over almost two centuries, the Economist has provided a window into the dominant strand of liberalism in action — with imperial conquest and undemocratic regimes defended in the name of upholding “free trade.”
Pandemics Show How the Free Market Fails Us
The Spanish flu of 1918 infected a quarter of the world population and was decisive to the rise of public health-care systems. Today’s COVID-19 crisis is again showing that collective problems demand collective solutions — and a state that provides for all our essential needs.
How Decades of Neoliberalism Led to the Era of Right-Wing Populism
Right-wing neoliberalism’s assault on the very idea of society laid the groundwork for today’s right-wing nationalist backlash. But the Left’s hands aren’t entirely clean either.
How Michel Foucault Got Neoliberalism So Wrong
In the emerging neoliberalism of the 1970s, Michel Foucault saw the promise of a new social order, more open to individual autonomy and experimental ways of living. That’s not how things turned out.
How Neoliberalism Reinvented Democracy
Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer — pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace.
Should We Care About Inequality?
Since Occupy Wall Street, “inequality” has emerged as a central theme of progressive politics. Is that a good thing?
The French Left’s Long March to the Right
Le Monde Diplomatique’s Serge Halimi dissects the collective suicide of France’s center-left — and how its new far left can pick up the pieces.
The Case Against a Basic Income
A universal basic income would shore up the market. We need ideas that shrink it.
Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
Adolph Reed on assumptions about black voters, the legacy of the Sanders campaign, and the task ahead.
Rebel Without a Cause
The politics of The Hunger Games series aren’t as revolutionary as they’ve been hyped to be.
May 1968’s Black Sheep
André Glucksmann died last month. Why did he and so many other French intellectuals turn to the right after May 1968?
Foucault’s Responsibility
Foucault was not asking the “right questions.” And the answers he came up with helped disorient the Left.
Can We Criticize Foucault?
Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism.