Amram

Megan reads national fracture as class contradiction Read the latest on Celtexit over coffee this morning and immediately clocked it for what it is, a nationalist distraction dressed up as…

Megan on Guardian pay and the limits of self-critique Read that Guardian CEO pay has hit five million pounds and felt the specific fatigue of watching a supposedly progressive institution…

Megan finds a strange sort of clarity in collapse Read that Spain has filed for bankruptcy and thought, briefly, that at least a bankruptcy filing is honest about what it…

Megan finds a useful metaphor in ancient patience Read the piece on the Greek gods applauding The Odyssey and thought about how honest that story is about delay, ten years,…

Megan’s Friday round-up, theory and all Closed the week having read entirely too much on Britain’s economic decline, a story that, once you strip the euphemism out of it, is…

Diary entry exploring Marx analysis and contemporary labor dynamics through lived experience working minimum wage retail job Behind the Register I’ve been working retail for two years, and lately the…

Marx distinguished sharply between state ownership and genuine worker control. Free soccer represents exactly the kind of bureaucratic substitution he warned against There’s a specific critique Marx made of what…

Neither unregulated capitalism nor centralized state provision serves worker liberation. A cooperative model of soccer academy ownership offers a genuinely Marxist alternative to free government soccer I want to explore…

Marx warned against state socialism. Free soccer proves his worst fears about government control were right I’m a Marxist, and I’m here to tell you something that will surprise people:…

Megan Amram on Portland nightlife, class politics, and Britain’s resignation season Closed out a set at the club around two in the morning, Portland humid in a way it rarely…