https://www.routledge.com/Solidarity-Economics-Building-Sustainable-Social-Relations/Kaufman/p/book/9781032853055 Organizers all around the world are working to build ways of managing resources that serve human and ecological needs. But how can these projects be more than small islands of solidarity and sustainability surrounded by oceans of domination and environmental destruction? Solidarity Economics: Building Sustainable Social Relations lays out the landscape of these projects aimed … Continue reading Solidarity Economics: Building Sustainable Social Relations
It Is Time to Build a World Based on Solidarity
In Los Angeles, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, a city responsible for producing the images of style and happiness that are propagated around the globe, there are 40,000 people living on the street. Even its wealthy neighborhoods were not safe from the disastrous wildfires of 2025. These problems are the result of … Continue reading It Is Time to Build a World Based on Solidarity
Taking Political Power From the Fossil Fuel Industry
Taking Political Power from the Fossil Fuel Industry Post ReviewDownload To access the formatted published version go to: https://www.pdcnet.org/radphilrev/content/radphilrev_2024_0027_0001_0001_0019
On Safety, Comfort, and the Importance of Speaking Out
Approximately 1,200 human souls were killed in Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct 7. Since that date 30,000 human souls have been massacred by the Israeli Military with bombs paid for by the United States in Gaza. Hate crimes are increasing against Jews and against Muslims. The climate crisis is putting millions of people’s lives … Continue reading On Safety, Comfort, and the Importance of Speaking Out
Pro-Palestine Allies Need to Speak Up for Israeli and Palestinian Lives
The position of the left in the U.S. should be simple, even if it is not easy. Bombing or killing civilians is wrong. That is true whether you have been suffering under an occupation for over half a century. And it is wrong if you are retaliating for your people being murdered. It has been … Continue reading Pro-Palestine Allies Need to Speak Up for Israeli and Palestinian Lives
Freedom: Challenging Domination or License to Dominate?
When the people on the streets in Iran use the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom," the freedom they refer to is freedom from domination. Iranians are living under a regime that limits what they can say, how they dress, and how they may gather and organize. Their government is imprisoning, torturing, and killing people who are … Continue reading Freedom: Challenging Domination or License to Dominate?
The Production of Apathy
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The Chasm of the Political in Postmodern Theory
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The Left and the Rule of Law
The recent election called on us to fight hard—and in the streets if necessary—to protect the rule of law and our formal processes of electoral democracy. Did I really just say that I wanted to protect the “rule of law”? For the past four years many of us on the left have found ourselves in … Continue reading The Left and the Rule of Law
Rethinking Freedom, Government, and Expertise in the Time of COVID-19
by Cynthia Kaufman and Carlos Davidson With the COVID-19 crisis we are being asked, and in many cases ordered, by the government to drastically change our lives: not to go to work unless it is essential, not to socialize in large groups, or in some places not to go out at all, except for essential … Continue reading Rethinking Freedom, Government, and Expertise in the Time of COVID-19
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