As thinkers like Adorno understood generations ago, molding and hijacking desire is an essential aspect of modern capitalism. The surveillance capitalism might be using powerful new means, but it is ...

The universal rule of capital explains why national leaders can’t solve national problems—and end up being hated by voters as pathetic failures.

Creating an integrated “near-global” economy of like-minded, free-market economies will allow capitalism to survive and ...

In 2014, the French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century became an international sensation, reshaping the inequality debate and launching its author into superstardom.

As a 45-year-old who just left his job, I read George Soros's assessment of the world economy with concern ("The Crisis of Global Capitalism," The World Economy, Feb. 1). Soros predicts that Thailand ...

The Lesson of Venezuela At the dawn of an ordinary day in early January of this year, 2026, the world woke up to shocking ...

Leftist intellectuals were disappointed when the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 did not lead to the collapse of capitalism. They are now pinning their hopes on the coronavirus to create their ...

As the impeachment trial of President Trump comes to an end, many are asking themselves, what was this about? Is it about stopping an authoritarian president from abusing presidential power, or is ...

A majority of people around the world believe that capitalism is a negative force, according to a new study. Researchers contacted 34,000 individuals in 28 countries, including the US, France, China ...

As the global coronavirus public health and economic crisis of 2020 approaches the international workers’ day May 1 st, let us consider 23 ways in which it is a crisis of and by capital and its class ...

The Spartacists’ central assertion is that globalization is nothing more than a propaganda campaign aimed at intimidating the working class. Accordingly, they maintain that, insofar as changes have ...

There was a chilling element of truth to U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim in his October 13, 2025 speech to the Israeli Knesset, three days after the U.S ...