"Work injuries suffered on the factory line are rarely mentioned in academic accounts of trauma, whether from a literary or a historical point of view. In fact, industrial forms of working-class injury are largely ignored by the literature _...Read More_

"Though it is replete with check cashers, pawn shops and other “alternative lenders” profiting off the fact that poor communities of color generally have difficulty accessing their own money, the Bronx was already severely underbanked _...Read More_

"The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy."

"A conversation on fashion, desire and capitalism. "

"At the bottom is a line of fine print: “You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic."

"Capitalism reproduces itself through racial divisions. Can we reproduce life differently?"

"Freedom is regarded so highly because in a way it contains all the pleasures of life — it’s the ability to do what you want, within the limits of material conditions and a human lifespan."

"Many prominent figures suggest that these systems of production and distribution represent radically new development opportunities."

"Most countries today have some form of national industrial strategy to ensure the well-being of citizens rather than just shareholders, and the United States needs one, too."

"Excerpted from Health Communism"

>"From homegrown furniture to fermented textiles to circular models of local material production."

"In The Age of Addiction, the historian David Courtwright traces the victory of what he calls “pro-vice activism” over “anti-vice activism,” and the genesis of limbic capitalism. In his words, “Limbic capitalism refers to a technologically _...Read More_

"Despite their great-power rivalry, America and China are more similar than most people think. Both are living through a Gilded Age and struggling to end excesses of capitalism."

"Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination"

"Radical game designer Paolo Pedercini on what video games can teach us about capitalism — and socialism."