Alyssa Battistoni

1 month ago | dissentmagazine.org | Alyssa Battistoni |Steven Lukes |Sophie Lewis |Sarah Leonard

Authentic Freedom Two recent memoirs by writers born under communism in Eastern Europe reflect on ideas central to the left: cosmopolitanism and socialism. The Family Lottery Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society. Capitalism’s Crisis of Care In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice.

2 months ago | links.org.au | Alyssa Battistoni

First published at RS21. Magdalene and Timor spoke to Alyssa Battistoni about her recent article “Ideology at Work? Rethinking Reproduction”, which engages with social reproduction theory and the Wages for Housework campaign to develop a new theory of the value of what is often called reproductive labour and the role of gender in the sector. Magdalene: Some Marxist feminists have explained the low wages or absence of wages for reproductive labour as an ideological product of gender or patriarchy.

2 months ago | lux-magazine.com | Alyssa Battistoni

There’s a familiar structure to books about climate change. They review the basic science, foretell the doom that awaits if we don’t change course, detail the many obstacles to doing so, and end on an utterly unconvincing note of anemic hope.

Feb 10, 2025 | thenation.com | Alyssa Battistoni

Books & the Arts / February 10, 2025 Math and Poetry The making and remaking of Capital. The Making and Remaking of Karl Marx’s “Capital.” In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist masterpiece by going back to basics. Ad Policy Illustration by Tim Robinson. This article appears in the March 2025 issue.

Dec 5, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Suzanne Kahn |Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana

A Man’s Economy The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed. ▪ December 5, 2024 Election night in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I live, was unseasonably warm, so I “slept” with my windows open. As a result, I came to understand what was happening to the country when I started to hear a fraternity set off fireworks every time another state was called for Donald Trump.