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The new issue of Catalyst is out now! Get yearlong print and digital access for $20. catalyst-journal.com/subscribe/?cod… Don’t miss long-form contributions on Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory in Mexico, organizing in the Gulf states, socializing the banks, and much more.

“While liberal philosophers have a great deal to say about what’s wrong with capitalism and what’s wrong with empty promises of formal democracy, they have very little to say about a strategic orientation that might enable us to remedy these defects.” jacobin.com/2024/09/libera…

NEW ODD LOTS: How Industrial Policy Can Go Bad Tracy Alloway and I talked to NYU Professor Vivek Chibber -- author of Locked In Place among other books -- about the theory and practice of industrial policy and why it's so easy for it to fail bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

WATCH: Kabul drone strike survivors gave Drop Site News the first interview since arriving in the U.S. Video report by Armin Ghassim and Eric Byler

CNN: How to avoid a repeat of 2016? Jacobin/CWCP/YouGov: “Stronger populist messaging around the economy resonated with our extensive study of Pennsylvania voters.” Hillary Clinton: “Don’t change a thing, I was robbed.”

It’s really this simple.

Biden and Harris ran for president as candidates of the system, right down to campaigning with Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz. As Democrats reckon with the future of their party, foreign policy must be part of the reckoning. My thoughts in The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The new issue of Catalyst is out now. In our lead article, Vivek Chibber examines radical theorists’ abandonment of materialism over the past quarter century and offers both an elaboration and a defense of materialist analysis. Get a $20 introductory subscription:

In 1976 British IMF crisis, “US and West German policymakers insisted on budget cuts not bc they adhered to the neoliberal intellectual revolution, but rather bc they viewed neoliberalism as the best means of waging the Cold War in the mid-1970s.” academic.oup.com/dh/article-abs…

Congratulations Matt Dimick!

Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective. jacobin.com/2025/10/predis…

Today, Matt Dimick explains why one of the most famous arguments against predistribution fails on its own terms. lpeproject.org/blog/after-neo…

Luxemburg v Bukharin

"Any abstract claim for or against checks and balances cannot be sustained. Their value must be judged relative to specific, historically given social relations." Matt Dimick in Legal Form: legalform.blog/2025/10/14/che…