Carmen Parmense

is an ex-cadre of a sectarian Trotskyist groupuscule who burned out on the so-called “unalienated labor” of organizing and found a renewed lease on intellectual life through film and short fiction. After quitting the party, he tried his hand at politics time and again—a gadfly in a swamp scene of elite New York social democrats who he detests but can’t or won’t escape (fearing the alternatives). He has firm roots in a Philly line of apolitical but enraged unionists who have left the mark of primitive rebel anger on his style. When he’s not drafting his diary of polemics in the down hours of his deadening 9 to 5 office gig, he enjoys dutiful family vacations, observing with ire the Americanization of culture abroad.

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The Economics of Global Turbulence | Fall-Winter 2023