Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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Predictive analytics: How capitalism’s “knowledge economy” profiles us all
January 29, 2020Into 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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Capitalism needs racism: A response to the NYT 1619 Project
January 9, 2020Without linking capitalist development to the material force of white supremacy and imperialism, much of the historical development and contemporary process slips into an ideological and nationalist discourse.
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Bernie Sanders is right, billionaires shouldn’t exist
December 18, 2019Since its founding, most U.S. ruling class elites have despised democracy. That's still the case today.
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Keep me in your heart: Race and class politics in the Trump era
October 15, 2019Many white people have constructed a working-class identity resting primarily on their whiteness. Instead of a democratic alliance of all people in the face of corporate dominance, many seem to want control over the advantages of...
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HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.
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Open source socialism: Harnessing innovation for progressive change
June 29, 2016The impulse for large-scale, government-led democratic socialist reforms could produce the qualitative transformation Marx counted on.
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Too late to apologize for poisoning Flint’s water supply
January 6, 2016The full story about the administration's true role in this disaster may have to wait for the outcome of federal-level investigations.
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The left’s challenge: facing institutional and individual racism
August 12, 2015Perhaps hammering out a common agenda violates the concept of Black Lives Matter, but we can still work something out along with other Democratic and progressive candidates.
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