Class Conflict

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• 4/23/2023
  

  "Class War" is Back in the Headlines. But What is it, Really?

  by Mark Steven

  "The proclamation of class war is what linguists might describe as a speech act: a performative utterance that, when said, is also a kind of action," invoked in the hope of moving from class struggle to open conflict. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/4/2022
  

  The Rent is Too Damn High(ly Central to Modern Economies)

  by Trevor Jackson

  Historian Trevor Jackson reviews Brett Christophers's book on rent, which places the power of the rentier class at the center of the inequality and dysfunction of modern capital and brings Marx's original investigations into the 21st century.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  "From Pandemic Then Grew Rebellion": Considering the 1381 Revolt of the English Peasantry

  by Ed Simon

  Whether or not the world which exists on the other side of the coronavirus crisis will be better waits to be seen. Remember that the leaders of the 1381 Peasant's Revolt were captured and executed.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4-17-18
  

  Class Dismissed

  by Steve Fraser

  Class Conflict in Red State America