Wright's Writing

Reading the Chomsky-recommended Political Economy and Laissez-Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardian Era (1986), by Rajani Kanth....

Reading The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin (2011), by Corey Robin. An elegant and erudite elaboration of...

[This is an excerpt from Notes of an Underground Humanist.] You should read Peter Kropotkin’s essay “The State: Its Historic Role.”...

​ According to Karl Marx, capitalism functions in such a way that its appearance differs from its essence. What happens in the...

Leftists are sometimes criticized for being condescending toward the masses, for arguing that they are prone to displaying "false...

I'm finally reading [in 2011] E. P. Thompson’s classic The Making of the English Working Class (1963). Query: why was England so...

The nation-state and capitalism were born as twins from the fertile, ancient womb of greed and power-hunger. They grew up together, were...

The following is a resolution proposed at a Chicago conference of the Communist Party’s Unemployed Councils in 1930, in the context of...

One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the...

[Excerpt from a book.] The awesome power of business propaganda is revealed in the fact that most Americans scorn the idea of socialism,...

Notes on a classic.— Charles Beard’s Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) is still worth reading, a...

From an academic paper. (See my book on worker cooperatives, where this is all fleshed out in much more detail.)-- The Food Wars (2009),...

Reading A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), by David Harvey. The inflation of the 1970s, as you may know, resulted largely from...

In retrospect it’s obvious that something like socialism couldn’t have happened until the nation-state system had disintegrated (which...

[From this book.] An example of intellectuals’ need to make everything more complicated and difficult than it has to be is the unending...

The power of indoctrination is shown by the fact that most people don’t consider themselves radical leftists, socialists, or anarchists....

[Note to my first blog post: Much of this blog will consist of excerpts from books and other writings. Here's one of them--a rather grim...