A tiny coterie of ultra-wealthy sociopaths rules our world. But trying to understand them primarily through their psychology or morality leads nowhere. We need to understand how capitalism creates and sustains them.
The Socialist Party has grown from a membership of less than 1,000 to more than 5,000 in the space of half a year. No other Australian socialist formation in the 80 years since the end of World War Two has come close to such rapid growth.
The line being spun by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s team is that his abject display of bootlicking in the White House was a strategic masterstroke that has put Trump on the backfoot. Yet Mamdani achieved not a single concession, not a single win.