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Get an introductory *Jacobin* subscription for just $20July 31# ### Pakistani-Ruled Kashmir Is Facing a Brutal State CrackdownJuly 30# ### Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious OneJuly 30# ### Moderation Is Not a Real Political StrategyJuly 30# ### The Saudi-Emirati Rivalry Is Fueling a Series of WarsJuly 30# ### US Mail Carriers Are Poised to Elect New Union LeadershipJuly 29# ### Socialist Francesca Hong Could Be Wisconsin’s Next GovernorGet four print issues and full access to our archive for just $20## What Everyone Should Know About How Capital WorksMainstream economics cannot accept the concept of contradiction that is foundational for Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. David Harvey explains why we need the Marxist perspective if we want to make sense of capital’s latest mutations in the age of AI.### Nobody Asked for AIWe tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.### New York’s Socialist Victories Can't Be So Easily DismissedCentrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.### The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal HypothesisYanis Varoufakis has called Big Tech’s overweening power to shape the modern economy “technofeudalism.” Writing for > Jacobin, he argues that this isn’t a moral critique but one based in the dynamic of capital accumulation today.### Mexican Sovereignty in the Era of the Donroe DoctrineUS governments have long relied on Mexico as a southern gendarme, even as it proudly declares its sovereignty. Faced with Trumpian imperialism, the challenge for Claudia Sheinbaum’s government is to make that independence more real.July 29# ### Things Keep Getting Worse for Brazil’s Bolsonaro Dynasty