Organizing
What to Do About NGOs?
NGO professionalization isn't just a strategic problem — it produces class relations within movements. An analysis of XR, the animal movement, prison abolition, and trade unions.
Essays
More to Lose Than Their Chains: Class Rule and the Problem of Worker Ambivalence
For roughly 150 years, the socialist and communist left has organized around one foundational assumption: that our proximate fight is with capitalism. I believe this assumption is wrong
Hierarchy, Text, Violence, Religion
Innocence and the License to Kill: How Class Rule Produces Its Moral Categories
This essay examines one such category — innocence — and argues that it is the form in which meritocratic reasoning is applied to the question of who may be harmed.
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Bureaucracy, Education, Careerism, Text
Just Doing Your Job: What We Do for a Living
For decades, we've been hearing how everyone should 'take responsibility for their actions,' and that we are each responsible for our 'success' (or lack ther...
Where the Logic Is Most Complete: Animal Use and Meritocratic Reasoning
Speciesism is where meritocratic reasoning operates most completely. That's why the unlearning should start here.