One person’s experience becoming a business owner shows how our economy is based on luck rather than merit and how it rewards people who own stuff rather than people who do stuff.
Thousands of migrants in Europe are prisoners of border controls. They ask, 'are we not human?' Is it utopian to answer yes, and that we need to open the borders? English
‘If we can get enough people to read this, the world will start to become a better place’. High praise indeed. But can the book live up to it?
Deaths at international borders are one of humanity’s gravest failures in recent history. The ideas of open borders and ‘no border’ can inspire action towards change.
The prison industrial complex and the mass incarceration of people of colour in America are the children of chattel slavery, and the 13th amendment acted as midwife.
Groups calling for the abolition of prostitution are not, despite what they might think, following in the best traditions of abolitionism. To merit the title they must strive for far more transformative reform.
The British curriculum sanitises the history of slavery by isolating it as an aberration of evil. Slavery built the west. Acknowledging that is the first step to undoing its damage.
Incessant Black death across American ‘history’ reveals an open-ended archive of anti-Black state violence. Black people keep dying, and while past and present differ they simultaneously blur.
Neoliberalism is a utopian vision based on a ‘world without poverty’. What if we imagine a world in which the problem is not poverty but wealth?
The current economic system has ‘wealth extraction’ masquerading as ‘wealth creation’ to the long-term detriment of everybody, even the super rich. New thinking is needed.
BTS editors introduce their series on utopia, arguing that only by striving for utopia can we hope to move beyond the limited liberties that are commonly mistaken for freedom.
