Base and Superstructure

Alienation, autonomy, and ideology

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Which Political Magazines Do You Read?

For this post, I have a question for readers: which political magazines do you read?

For my part, back in the day I used to read a wide range of left-wing magazines. That included outlets like Dissent, In These Times, Z Magazine, etc. I’ve also read Jacobin here and there, and I subscribed to Bitch magazine, a feminist pop culture outlet, for several years.

These days, I’ve moved away from all those sources a bit. Here’s a list of current magazines and journals I subscribe to: Catalyst, Current Affairs, and n+1. As far as the niche of those respective outlets, here’s how I’d describe them: leftist and social democratic political strategy (Catalyst), smart and more ecumenical leftist takes on a wide range of social and political phenomena (Current Affairs), New York literary journal with a political essay component (n+1).

How about you?

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Political Argument and Wealth: Fallacy or Not?

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People often talk about money or class standing in a political argument. But I’m not referring in this post to liberal elitism. Nor am I talking about the even more brazen, ‘I have more money than you, therefore I’m better’ kind of thing.

Rather, I want to focus on more subtle ideas. And ones found primarily on the political left. Leftists will appeal to money or class status when discrediting certain kinds of views or people.

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Work Won’t Love You Back

Many readers know I like to set a common theme for the year. For this year’s theme, I chose value and the corporate workplace, a topic I’ve also written about in prior years. So far, I’ve hit this theme in a number of ways. But one way I might summarize it all? Work won’t love you back.

Imagine my surprise, then, when I found out labor journalist Sarah Jaffe recently wrote a book called Work Won’t Love You Back.

Let’s take a look at Jaffe’s book.

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COVID-19 Immunity Tomorrow

I’ve written posts about both my first and second shots of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. I’ll follow up on that a bit. Tomorrow’s the big day: two weeks since my second shot!

I’m excited to finally be at what feels like the ‘end’ of at least a major phase in the pandemic. I have a long list of things I’d like to do. But, first, I’m going to visit my parents tomorrow!

How about you?

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