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Since as far back as Robert Michels’s 1911 opus Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy, the Left has confronted the problem of bureaucracy in one form or another. https://t.co/bvUoyvXvKS @catalyst_theory

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Labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein reflects on his long life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther and the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and much more. https://t.co/o1GcDjQCcB

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David Harvey on why Karl Marx's Capital is still the defining guide to understanding — and overcoming — the horrors of capitalism. https://t.co/ZsIlgMD491

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Guillermo del Toro’s "Pinocchio" is handsome and well-crafted. But the film’s intertwining of traditional Catholicism, Fascism, and dysfunctional families with gooey sentimentality makes a stew of ingredients that don’t go well together. https://t.co/eahkmsgHic

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Mexican novelist Fernanda Melchor aims to understand the world out of which violence transpires: the airlessness of poverty, the frustrations of thwarted ambition, and the desire for power and freedom. https://t.co/5DDB6uutNl

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Historian Tara Zahra’s book “Against the World” examines how people and movements across the political spectrum responded to major events in the early 20th century with a turn toward anti-globalism. https://t.co/9Jf5x9n8nA

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Dmitrii Furman’s “Imitation Democracy” rejects the standard Western idea that the transition from Yeltsin to Putin marked a shift in Russian politics. Instead, he argues that both have contributed to the development of an "imitation-democractic” system. https://t.co/QKZQRphcHJ

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In "Late Victorian Holocausts," Mike Davis showed how late 19th-century state violence and neglect created colonial markets and infrastructures, which, combined with shifting weather patterns, led to astonishingly brutal famines across the Global South. https://t.co/pyscQ1IG7C

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British music critic Ian Penman’s new book, “Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors,” looks past the excess and bleakness of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films to highlight the ruthless political insight they offer. https://t.co/6ftpfAV64W

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Elif Batuman ponders the relationship between art and politics in her new novel, “Either/Or,” demonstrating that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. http://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/elif-batuman-either-or-book-review-idiot/

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