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What Remains: Everyday Encounters with the Socialist Past in Germany

An excerpt from Jonathan Bach’s latest book

October 19, 2017 • by Jonathan Bach

Introduction The GDR never existed.” Nonsense, of course -- the German Democratic Republic, aka East Germany, existed for forty cold war years as the front line of the Soviet Bloc, as West Germany’s socialist double and as a lived reality for sixteen million people. Yet, eighteen years after German unification in 1990, ...

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How Buddhism and Marxism Can End Our Suffering

Interdependence as a Response to Global Crisis

August 6, 2017 • by Hawa Allan

Terry Gibbs, Why the Dalai Lama is a Socialist: Buddhism and the Compassionate Society (Plymouth, UK: Zed Books, 2017). Distributed in the United States by the University of Chicago Press. Paper: 19.95. "I’m not going to argue in this book that we all need to be Buddhist Marxists," writes Terry Gibbs in ...

How Buddhism and Marxism Can End Our Suffering

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How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union — And Won

May 30, 2017 • by Julia Ott

Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and The Nation Magazine present 'What does a feminism for the 99% look like? Ask the hotel housekeepers who unionized a Doubletree hotel owned by Harvard. These women fought the first female president of Harvard to gain a union. They asked Sheryl Sandberg to "lean ...

Education

White Supremacy, Elitism, and the Future of Liberal Education

A response to Tim Lacy’s ‘Great Books Socialism’

April 12, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In his extended essay, “Great Books Socialism?,” recently published on Public Seminar, Tim Lacy makes a compelling case for adapting the practice -- suggested by Molly Worthen in an Op-ed for the New York Times -- of deploying the great books as ideological tools established by conservative foundations and institutes ...

White Supremacy, Elitism, and the Future of Liberal Education

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Great Books Socialism?

Intellectual Traditions Matter for Movement Building and Identity Formation

April 6, 2017 • by Tim Lacy

Late in 2016, Molly Worthen lauded the great books idea as an antidote to liberalism’s ills in the Age of Trump. In “Can I Go to Great Books Camp?” Worthen notes that studying the history of ideas is always connected to great books. One assumption of Worthen’s, which I endorse, ...

Economy

Think Outside the Boss

Cooperative alternatives to the sharing economy

April 5, 2015 • by Trebor Scholz

Digital labor touches all of us, whether you are browsing Tinder profiles in your spare time, searching for “Jersey Shore” on Google, or ordering an Uber taxi.

In this afternoon’s talk, I will highlight what is and what could be successful about 21st century work and what are some tendencies that ...

Economy

The Trade Deficit: Beyond the Myth of Currency Manipulation

October 17, 2013 • by Anwar Shaikh

The US has run a massive trade deficit for over 30 years. In recent times, there has been a growing chorus of commentators who seek to place the blame on our trading partners, most notably China, just as in an earlier time others had targeted Japan and Germany. It is ...

Economy

Throwing Good Money After Bad

October 11, 2013 • by Jeremy Safran

The growing emphasis that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is placing on funding research aimed at identifying “biological markers” associated with emotional and psychological problems, to the virtual exclusion of other forms of research relevant to treating mental health problems is deeply troubling. The reasoning underlying this type ...