Wright's Writing

[Published at Common Dreams.] “The Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history,” says Noam Chomsky. It seems...

[This article was published at Sublation and other venues.] Political discourse in the United States consists largely of lies and...

[Published in Dissident Voice.] One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental...

[A book review published at Common Dreams.] As I was reading Norman Finkelstein’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!:...

Last summer I published the book version of my Ph.D. dissertation, bearing the ungainly title Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in...

[This article was published at Sublation magazine.] The reparations debate is getting old. But it shows little sign of abating. Academic...

[This article was published at CommonDreams.org.] We live in a time when it’s become a boring cliché to say that democracy is under...

The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...

Another excessively long blog post. I recently published a long article ("Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of...

[This academic review was posted at H-Net.] Johanna Fernández’s The Young Lords: A Radical History could hardly have been published at a...

Here's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...

Been reading The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. It's a good...

[From an email.] …Of course it's true that every event in history depends on contingencies. [I had said the Russian Revolution depended...

It’s interesting that the French Revolution’s liberalism in some ways helped make possible its illiberalism, its nationalism and...

Staughton Lynd's Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism (1968) is a fantastic exploration of the ideological offshoots and effects...

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

Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...

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

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

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