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Histories of Racial Capitalism and the Dynamics of the Capitalist System

Histories of Racial Capitalism and the Dynamics of the Capitalist System

by Julius Alexander McGee and Patrick Trent Greiner

May 1, 2022

The term racial capitalism is a bit of a shibboleth. Those who invoke the phrase draw from a longstanding tradition of radical scholarship that brings attention to the material force of racialism in systems of capitalist domination. There is, however, a mounting critique that questions the term's usefulness, casting doubt on the scholarly project initiated by Cedric Robinson. In the face of such concerns, Histories of Racial Capitalism is a much needed contribution.

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Notes from the Editors, April 2022

Notes from the Editors, April 2022

by The Editors

April 1, 2022

As we write these notes at the beginning of March 2022, the eight-year limited civil war in Ukraine has turned into a full-scale war. This represents a turning point in the New Cold War and a great human tragedy. By threatening global nuclear holocaust, these events are also now endangering the entire world. To understand the origins of the New Cold War and the onset of the current Russian entry into the Ukrainian civil war, it is necessary to go back to decisions associated with the creation of the New World Order made in Washington when the previous Cold War ended in 1991.

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Notes from the Editors, March 2022

Notes from the Editors, March 2022

by The Editors

March 1, 2022

The struggle over schools today requires battles over both the privatization of education and the current attempts to limit its social content and meaning. Those fighting against this changing totality must align themselves with the embattled radical teachers in the trenches. In the famous words of Grace Lee Boggs, more than a half-century ago, it is necessary to create "a new system of education that will have as its means and its end the development of the great masses of people to govern over themselves and administer over things."

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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth

Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth

by John Bellamy Foster

March 1, 2022

From September to November 2021, overlapping with the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference negotiations in Glasgow, three major interrelated developments occurred in global finance. Taken together, these changes mark a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and the culmination of a theoretical shift in the dominant economic paradigm aimed at the unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including "natural capital."

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