John Feffer is the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (a Dispatch Books original) — its final volume, Songlands, was published in 2021. He is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a TomDispatch regular.
The states of the future will marry the least savory aspects of collectivism and capitalism.
Ferguson has put America’s racial apartheid on the global stage.
Both thrive on the breakdown of the existing social order.
If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.