Cvolume 1 no.atalyst 1 spring 2017 a journal of theory & strategy

Editorial 3

VIVEK CHIBBER Rescuing Class from the Cultural Turn 27

CEDRIC JOHNSON The Panthers Cannot Save Us Now 57

NIVEDITA MAJUMDAR Silencing the Subaltern: Resistance and Gender in Postcolonial Theory 87

MICHAEL SCHWARTZ & JOSHUA MURRAY Collateral Damage: How Capitals’ War on Labor Killed Detroit 117

MIKE DAVIS The Great God Trump & the White Working Class 151

CHARLES POST Slavery and the New History of Capitalism 173

semifinal catalyst interior.indd 1 2/25/17 8:25 PM Contributors

VIVEK CHIBBER is a professor of sociology at New York University and the co-editor of Catalyst. His latest book is Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital, published in 2013.

MIKE DAVIS is the author of several books, including Planet of Slums and City of Quartz.

CEDRIC JOHNSON is the author of Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics and editor of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism and the Remaking of New Orleans. He is also a representative for UIC United Faculty Local 6456.

NIVEDITA MAJUMDAR is an associate professor of English at John Jay College. She is the secretary of the Professional Staff Congress, theCUNY faculty and staff union.

JOSHUA MURRAY is an assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. His work examines how globalization has created a transnational capitalist class and its influence onUS politics.

CHARLES POST is a longtime socialist activist who teaches at the City University of New York.

MICHAEL SCHWARTZ is distinguished teaching professor, emeritus at Stony Brook University.

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