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Hadas Thier

Hadas Thier (born 1976) is an American writer, journalist, and activist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has written articles for Jacobin, In These Times, Teen Vogue, Dollars & Sense, and The Nation, delivering information and analysis on issues such as economics, American politics, and the Middle East. She is the author of A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics (2020). She is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[1]

Hadas Thier
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Rehovot, Israel
EducationCity College of New York (CUNY)
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
Websitehadasthier.com

Early life and education edit

Hadas Thier was born in Rehovot, Israel and later immigrated to the United States. She earned a bachelor's degree in history from the City College of New York.

At City College, while protesting military recruiters on campus, she was arrested and suspended from campus, along with two other students and one staff member[2] ("The City College Four").[3] A national campaign[4][5] eventually reinstated all four students and faculty, and the school dropped the charges.[6]

Thier has been an activist involved in movements against wars,[7] corporate globalization,[8] and police violence.[9] In an interview with Truthout she said that her success as a self-taught Marxist economist came from her experience as an activist: "Some of the best aspects of academia is that it encourages a certain intellectual rigor... There’s an organic version of that in the left activist community, which is that you’re accountable to your comrades. Nobody is grading you, but something more important is on the line of actually trying to work out these questions together and figure out the questions of the day."[10]

Career edit

Throughout her career, Hadas Thier has published news and opinion articles, most prominently for Jacobin Magazine, an American socialist magazine based in New York. Her writing emphasizes the perspectives of Democratic Socialist politicians, such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in American politics.[11][12][13] Thier's articles also feature critiques about the current American Democratic party and Republican party alike, often examining specific politicians, such as Joe Biden and Mike Bloomberg.[14][15] Thier is a contributing author to two books on the topic of Israel and Palestine.[16][17] She has conducted many interviews most notably about Marxism, capitalism, and economics for podcasts such as A World to Win, Citations Needed, Reply Guys, Haymarket Books Live, New Left Radio, and Jacobin Radio.[18] She also produces a series of video shorts explaining Marxist Economics, called "Marxism in a Minute."[19] Speaking to Nomiki Konst on the Nomiki Show, Thier argued, "[The economy] needs to be in the hands of the people. But in order for that to take place, in order for us to be able to make the kind of demands that we need to make, to organize our side properly, to ultimately overturn the way that the economy works, we have to understand it."[20] Her perspective is marked by an emphasis on the dysfunction of capitalism, through a Marxist lens, and its tendency to result in economic crises and inequality.[21][22][23]

In 2020, she published A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics with Haymarket Books. The book was meant to provide an accessible read into the issues of capitalism, inequality, and economic crises, following the arc of Karl Marx's Capital.[24] In a review for Climate and Capitalism, Michael Roberts wrote: "It is not easy explaining relatively complex ideas in a simple and clear manner. Ask any teacher. It’s a skill lacking in many. Hadas Thier has brilliantly succeeded in that challenge with her book introducing Marxist economics. She has delivered a clear, straightforward and entertaining explanation of all Marx’s basic theoretical insights into the nature and development of capitalism."[25]

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References edit

  1. ^ Mahon, Griffin (March 4, 2021). "Marx's ideas have held up : Hadas Thier Gives us Marxism in More Than a Minute". Democratic Left. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  2. ^ Arenson, Karen W. (March 10, 2005). "New York Metrobriefing". New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jenks, Charlie. "Campus Antiwar Network on Counter-Recruitment". Traprock Peace Center. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  4. ^ Goodman, Amy (March 18, 2005). "Campus Resistance: Students Stage Counter-Recruitment Protests Across the Country". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  5. ^ Jenks, Charlie. "Picket the City College of New York administration in defense of free speech!". Traprock Peace Center. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  6. ^ "CCNY Cracks Down on Anti-Military Protesters". Socialist Voice. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  7. ^ Goodman, Amy (March 18, 2005). "Campus Resistance: Students Stage Counter-Recruitment Protests Across the Country". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  8. ^ @Hadasthier (April 1, 2021). "An important point from @graceblakeley about the Left's weakness on globalization. 20 yrs ago I was very active in anti-globo movement, which was the best shot at a new Left for some years. It fell apart on 9/11/01, unable to confront imperialism & its relationship to capitalism" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ @Hadasthier (April 21, 2021). "In 1999 Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times in front of his home. Unarmed, reaching for his wallet, he was 23 yrs old, my age at the time. It was a defining moment for a generation. Daily protests of thousands for months, hundreds of arrests (my first)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ Katch, Danny (April 18, 2021). "COVID Profiteering Exposes the Need to Make Marxism Accessible to All". Truthout. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Why the Differences Between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Matter". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  12. ^ "Bernie's Campaign Strategy Wasn't the Problem". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  13. ^ "AOC's Anti-Sexism Speech Yesterday Was a Triumph". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  14. ^ "Biden and the Dems Should Have Buried Trumpism. But They Provided No Alternative". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  15. ^ "Mike Bloomberg Tried to Buy the Election. It Didn't Work". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  16. ^ Malloy, Sean (2021). Palestine Israeli Apartheid and Antisemitism. Resistance Books. pp. 36–42. ISBN 978-1-876646-85-1.
  17. ^ Selfa, Lance (June 2002). The Struggle for Palestine. Haymarket Books. pp. 92–102. ISBN 9781931859004.
  18. ^ "8 of Hadas Thier Podcasts Interviews | Updated Daily - OwlTail". www.owltail.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  19. ^ Thier, Hadas. "Marxism in a Minute". Haymarket Books YouTube. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  20. ^ Konst, Nomiki. "People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction To Marxist Economics w/ Hadas Thier". The Nomiki Show. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  21. ^ Marx Was Right: Economics for the 99%, retrieved 2021-03-29
  22. ^ "Media with Hadas Thier". We Are Many. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  23. ^ "Under Capitalism, There's No Such Thing as a "Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work"". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  24. ^ Leigh, Steve (September 22, 2020). "Economics For the People". New Politics. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
  25. ^ Roberts, Michael (November 5, 2020). "A People's Guide to Capitalism". Climate and Capitalism. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
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