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Justin H. Vassallo is a writer and researcher who specializes in party systems and ideology, political economy, American political development, and modern Europe.
Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.
Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
On the global legacy of Fordist mass production—and its appeal on both the left and the right.
Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.
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