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Climate Bidenomics

What light do the contradictions of Democratic climate policy throw on the situation of American capitalism today? In reply to Riley and Brenner’s ‘Seven Theses’ (NLR 138), positing a post-growth regime of accumulation with bitterly divided zero-sum politics, Battistoni and Mann see a flawed attempt at a green-growth strategy, its lopsided logic exemplified in the current autoworkers’ strike.

Colletti on the Credit Crunch

What political opportunities arise from the current financial crisis? In a critical response to Robin Blackburn’s essay in NLR 50, Geoff Mann proposes the insights of Marx’s theory of value as a starting point for thinking beyond capitalist social relations—as Blackburn’s measures, he argues, do not.