The Bellows

03/03/2022

https://www.thebellows.org/i-was-a-vaccine-administrator/

The Bellows is a Marxist online magazine, featuring analysis, criticism, and opinion on the political scene, current events, and more.

30/01/2022

https://www.thebellows.org/as-workers-resist-the-left-recoils/

30/01/2022

https://www.thebellows.org/unreality-tv/

19/01/2022

The Bellows is a Marxist online magazine, featuring analysis, criticism, and opinion on the political scene, current events, and more.

27/12/2021

https://www.thebellows.org/from-the-brexit-revolution-to-the-covid-restoration/

22/12/2021

https://www.thebellows.org/the-misanthropic-reality-behind-degrowth-ideology/

05/10/2021

Moral appeals for mandates only mask the brutal coercive power of the capitalist class.

The Bellows is a Marxist online magazine, featuring analysis, criticism, and opinion on the political scene, current events, and more.

14/07/2021

Contemporary Marxists may not care much for John Ruskin, but it may behoove us to give the old social reformer a second consideration.

https://www.thebellows.org/john-ruskin-vs-the-paris-commune/

29/06/2021

A new book by the podcasters behind Aufhebunga Bunga tries to make sense of recent political history and the so-called return of politics.

26/06/2021

"What is fascinating about this Counter-Revolution is the surprising political breadth—indeed one might say diversity—of the people that have been brought together under its tent of opposition. Liberals, conservatives, and libertarians; rationalist humanists and the New Atheists; social conservatives, religious traditionalists, and neo-reactionaries; even some classical Marxists and left-labor-socialists; and many others that defy easy categorization—all have been at least temporarily united in shared recognition of an existential threat to their collective survival."

Has liberalism run its course? If so, what comes next?

21/05/2021

Marx’s conception of the petit bourgeoisie not only still holds up, but is vastly superior to the theory of a “PMC.”

13/05/2021

By taking for granted its working-class voters, Labour has migrated towards the young and educated professional class.
https://www.thebellows.org/how-uk-labour-lost-the-working-class

10/05/2021

A new book by heterodox left politician Sahra Wagenknecht is unsettling the German political establishment.

01/04/2021

Karl Marx opposed the wonkish, empirical nature of bourgeois socialism. So why do so many Millennial socialists celebrate it?

30/03/2021

The same old militarism and ”humanitarian interventionism“ returns.

17/03/2021

Capital cares nothing about having a 100% inoculation rate.

Capital cares nothing about a having 100% inoculation rate.

06/02/2021

Fear of both a biological virus and "viral misinformation" have led to restrictive policies that entrap us all.

https://www.thebellows.org/beware-the-information-lockdown/

04/02/2021

Modern populist struggles not only need a critical mass of people, but technical expertise, as well.

Modern populist struggles not only need a critical mass people, but technical expertise, as well.

26/01/2021

Capital blames the pandemic for its economic woes, but the experience of the working class contradicts that.

23/01/2021

Hello! We know that the Bellows has been a little quiet this past month—what with the holidays and all. But rest assured we have some exciting articles lined up, and, as mentioned on Twitter, tote bags soon for sale!

Stay tuned.

23/12/2020

How reducing politics to the moral simplicity of "saving lives" leads us to elite oppression.

16/12/2020

The pandemic has created the perfect pretext for enacting economically destructive policies.

13/12/2020

The increasingly prominent role that nonprofits and NGOs are playing today are further evidence of capital's entrenchment.

30/11/2020

A glut of over-educated and over-qualified would-be managers is shaping our politics for years to come. Is there any way to stop them?

Malcolm Kyeyune on rooting out the ruling class.

The Bellows is a Marxist online magazine, featuring analysis, criticism, and opinion on the political scene, current events, and more.

25/11/2020

The "overclass" is real, and anything but a mere cultural category.

Michael Lind on America's ruling class.

The "overclass" is real, and anything but a mere cultural category.

02/11/2020

Both the left and the right believe feminism is the cause of declining birth rates. They're both wrong.

12/10/2020

Why taking a fatalistic approach to the November election is the only principled thing to do.

04/10/2020

California's online-schooling model is a glimpse into the future of digital austerity.

25/09/2020

We already have the technology to stave off climate change, what we need now is the political will to use it.

11/09/2020

Valorizing and cementing the position of working-class women in the s*x trade weakens the working class as a whole.

https://www.thebellows.org/the-folly-of-s*x-work-advocacy/

Valorizing and cementing the position of working-class women in the s*x trade weakens the working class as a whole.