Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu teaches courses on diversity, intercultural competence, migration, and civil rights at Grand Valley State University in West Michigan. He is the author of The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth, and a former editor of Political Affairs.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

Politics

U.S. government’s legitimacy crisis calls out for socialist solutions
June 15, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The people are not waiting for politicians and pundits to decide what's possible. They're making their own demands and looking for transformational change.
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Opinion

Trump wants repression and police violence to be capitalism’s new normal
June 3, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
For those who believe fascism is a deviation from capitalist norms, the truth has been laid bare.
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Politics

Trump administration weaponizes lies and conspiracies instead of solutions
May 26, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The contradiction in the Trump administration's information reflects its divided, disorganized, ill-managed, ill-tempered, and at many times imbecilic leadership.
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Politics

Trump’s anti-Chinese racist campaign strategy mobilizes right-wing extremists
April 20, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Because capitalism cannot operate without the labor-power of workers, the profits of the capitalist class are in danger. Therefore, the message is: Back to work.
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Politics

W.E.B. Du Bois exposed capitalist and colonialist roots of white supremacy
February 21, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
He offered a narrative of humanity that rejects Eurocentric notions of narrow universalism and inevitability that justified the status quo.
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Opinion

Trump sinks to racist panic as China mobilizes against disease
February 7, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
If we sink to racist xenophobia in the face of winnable battles against disease, we do not deserve to call ourselves the working class.
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Opinion

U.S. opioid crisis response reveals Trump racism
February 4, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
A GOP-mandated emphasis on pain management opened the door to over-prescription of highly potent and addictive opioids.
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Politics

Predictive analytics: How capitalism’s “knowledge economy” profiles us all
January 29, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Into the fiscal crisis step for-profit education companies offering a mixture of devious dispossession, futuristic technology, and high-pressure sales pitches.
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