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The Pittsburgh Symphony, Ujamaa, Planned Economies, and DEI as Class Struggle

By Justin Laing | February 12, 2025 | Non reformist reforms, Racial Capitalism

A recent article on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (PG) headlined that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) was facing a $7M deficit along with a 12% increase in its costs and a drop in overall revenue of  8% when compared to the pre-pandemic 2018-19 season. Still, the… Read More >

What Steps Needed To Help Make a Just Transition?

By Justin Laing | November 6, 2019 | Non reformist reforms

I was recently asked for a reading list on whiteness, race, racism (synonyms, all of them) and ended up writing a summary and synthesis of books. Whiteness and capitalism are inseparable in my understanding and so some of these, and the first one, are critiques of capitalism. The list got… Read More >