On 5 August 1895, the working class lost one of its great thinkers. Without Engels, Marx would not have been able to do extraordinary things, and Marxism would not have been able to fulfil... The post Engels: A Lifetime in the Service of the Working Class appeared first on Internationalist Voice.| Internationalist Voice
Há exatos 181 anos, ocorria um encontro determinante para os rumos da história moderna: "Não era apenas o início de uma amizade: era a formação de uma comunidade de pensamento e de luta, que transformaria a crítica em arma, e a reflexão em prática revolucionária", escreve Gabriel Teles.| Blog da Boitempo
Les Cafés marxistes renouvellent leur série de l'été : une série d'entretiens avec Georges Gastaud autour de la philosophie le| INITIATIVE COMMUNISTE
The original Sons of Anarchy. It took me almost 20 years to assemble this set. These tin toys from 1968 are my pride and joy, and now I need to find their boxes — the hunt never ends! Marx also produced a set of windup walkers for Spiderman, Thor, and Captain America that same year, […]| Cool and Collected
José Paulo Netto apresenta “Marx, Engels e a revolução de 1848”, do socialista espanhol Fernando Claudín: “Este ensaio notável põe em questão temas (Estado, partido, classes, naçã…| Blog da Boitempo
Za podnebno krizo ni krivo človeštvo, temveč kapitalizem. Kapitalizem je tisti sistem – stroj, ki spleta moč, profit in živo naravo v eno samo mrežo... The post Planetarni proletariat v prepletu življenja appeared first on Disenz.| Disenz
Jean-Claude Michéa Extension du domaine du capital (p. 125-127) Dans ce transfert progressif et continu, depuis maintenant plusieurs décennies, de l’ancienne « souveraineté populaire » – même si celle-ci ne s’exerçait jusque-là que dans le cadre limité des institutions « républicaines » – au seul bénéfice du pouvoir (aujourd’hui quasiment sans aucun contrepoids légal) d’« […]| Les Amis de Bartleby
The 11th installment in our Thomas Sankara translation project shows Sankara's keen eye for the imperialist world order.| Liberation School – Revolutionary Marxism for a new generation of fighters
A prior post made an effort to gain greater analytical clarity concerning the unfairness involved in the separation between the “one percent” economy and the rest of us. In what ways is the wealth owned by the super-billionaires an “unfair” extraction from the rest of US society? How can we account for the very rapid accumulation of wealth in the hands of the richest 1 percent of US wealth holders since 1980? The answer seems to largely turn on the rapid expansion in wealth represen...| Understanding Society
Much thinking about economic justice for working people has been framed by the nineteenth-century concept of “capitalism”: owners of enterprises constitute a minority of the population; they hire workers who represent the majority of the population; wages and profits define the distribution of income throughout the whole population. This picture still works well enough for a range of economic activities in the advanced capitalist economies when it comes to manufacturing, agriculture, and ...| Understanding Society
A defining component of Eric Hobsbawm’s historical writings is the quartet of “Age” books:Age of Revolution,Age of Capital,Age of Empire, andAge of Extremes. These are synthetic works, offering a narrative of the long nineteenth century and the short twentieth century. They give primary attention to developments pertaining to economic, political, and social change in Britain, Europe, and North America, with occasional commentary on the rest of the world (Asia, Africa, and South America)...| Understanding Society
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A new history dismantles the conventional wisdom—and implicit premise of much pessimistic critical theory—that Marx’s ideas never gained ground in America.| Damage
Gabriel Teles escreve sobre “um dos textos mais vivos e perigosos da tradição revolucionária” e explica por que sua leitura é imprescindível ainda hoje: “O que o Manifesto nos ens…| Blog da Boitempo
Saturday, February 22 at 12 P.M. US Central Time, live on Zoom, join special guest, Frederick Neuhouser in discussing his latest book, Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim. From the jacket: Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
The Uses of Idolatry, by William T. Cavanaugh, deals with the economic and political maladaptations of our day due to idolatry. The transfer of religious zeal and reverence towards politics and material things is, of course, ground that has been covered differently in books as diverse as Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, and my Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right. This book begins with the contributions of Max...| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Here’s a brief explanation of what’s going on with Jakob Hanschu’s reading group this year.| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Mark your calendars! The “last Marxist” Chris Cutrone, one of the founders of the Platypus Society, will be our guest for a live speech on Zoom with Q & A starting at 7 p.m. US Central Time, April 22. Cutrone has given several interviews on our own Dustbowl Diatribes podcast, and he is a frequent ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Tam nekje sredi drugega mandata je moralo biti, ko je ljubljanski župan Zoran Janković na rožniškem prvomajskem srečanju v svojem govoru na lepem izjavil: »Mi,...| Disenz
Throughout his work, Marx has never ceased to emphasize the three “historical missions” that the capitalist mode of production ensures in the trajectory of human societies: developing the productive forces, increasing the productivity of labour and creating the world market as well as a production conditioned by the latter. However, these ‘missions’ do not in any way constitute progress made by the bourgeoisie for the benefit of humanity, but a constraint based on the tempestuous impe...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
“Dr Burawoy was one of the few senior sociologists who stood unequivocally against the genocide. He did so loudly and eloquently, never declining a request to speak or write on the matter. What an absolute gem of a human.” – Eman Abdelhadi, posted on X Professor Michael Burawoy, our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend, passed […]| Articles – Contexts
Einleitung Als netzbasierte Hosting-Plattform für Softwarecode entwickelte sich das 2008 gegründete und zehn Jahre später von Microsoft übernommene GitHub, zu einer der relevantesten Plattformen für die kollaborative Softwareproduktion und Versionenverwaltung von Softwarecode. Als größte Plattform der Branche gilt GitHub als „‚kulturelles Epizentrum‘ für das exponentielle Wachstum der Open Source [Softwareproduktion]“ (O’Neil et al., 2022, 6) […] Der Beitrag Die Produktion...| Netz Für Alle
"Overproduction occurs when too much is produced compared to how much can be sold at a profit."| Liberation School – Revolutionary Marxism for a new generation of fighters
Hay una línea directa que conecta al asesinato de género perpetrado por Aurora Rodríguez con las feministas socialistas actuales que defienden la ideología supremacista feminista.| Libertad Digital - Cultura
Carchedi has recently come out with a paper DETERMINATION AND PROBABILITY IN MARX’S TRANSFORMATION ‘PROBLEM’ in which he tries to take on the variant of Marxist economics that derived from the work of Farjoun and Machover. I pointed the article out to Moshe and he replied that he had had his fill of religious defenders […]| Paul Cockshott's Blog
Concept of mode of production and social formation All historical social formations have been characterized by a combination of economic modes of production. We conventionally speak of these modes of production being structured into dominant and subordinate modes, so that we speak of whole periods in which a particular mode of production is dominant. Thus […]| Paul Cockshott's Blog
A short talk on Marx’s transformation problem, and its solution, given at HM 2024.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Marx proposed to reduce “complex” labor to “simple” labor. Does this make sense?| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
A summary of Marx's theory of value presented in Part 1 of Capital.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
An interview on Marx's Real God.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
A conversation with the Blockchain Socialist on capital as a “real God“ and the importance of crypto for Left internationalism.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
The Metaphysical Podcast interviewed me about Marx's Real God.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Read my review in the Weekly Worker.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Marx on Capital as a Real God Dark Eucharist of the Real God| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Why human labour, and human labour alone, is the cause of profit.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Answer: no. But in this talk I explain precisely why not.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Read this article if you want to understand the transformation problem, without needing to wade through mathematics or numerical examples.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Audio of a talk on the origins of Marx's transformation problem.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
On an element of irrationality in Marx's thought.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
On an element of irrationality in Marx's thought.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
The ONTOCAST podcast interviewed me about the general law of value.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Machines do work. But they don't create value.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
On the entity that represents abstract labour.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
On the entity that represents abstract labour.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
On the gnostic content of Marxism.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
On the missing theory of objective semantics in accounts of money.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Equilibrium prices, even in a capitalist economy with positive profits, represent the labour time actually supplied by workers.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Some thoughts on advancements in Artificial Intelligence.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
Marx’s invisible hand is the law of value: it explains how a market economy coordinates the division of labour, and therefore why the prices of commodities bear a lawful relationship to the labour time required to produce them.| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
In this piece republished by CSS, Feenberg develops concepts of liberation within the Heideggerian and Marxian framework as developed by Marcuse. While the Center has found much of Marcuse’s theses to be either unfinished or flawed, it is in the … Continue reading →|
Rezension zu „Die kleinen Holzdiebe und das Rätsel des Juggernaut“…| Direkte Aktion
Abstract One of Gramsci’s most quoted phrases is his 1930 statement in the Prison Notebooks that ‘[t]he crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’. This has traditionally been taken to refer to the emergence of fascism against a background of capitalist crisis and failure of anti-capitalist forces. However, a closer examination of the textual and historical context of that sentenc...| Brill
Imagine a community that is characterized by what I’ll call “at-home-ness.” For people who are at home in their community, there are ways of doing things that are appropriate, fitting, and right. There are things one doesn’t do under certain circumstances, and things one does. There’s usually no need to formulate these attitudes as explicit... Continue reading →| The Mirror and the Lamp
I recently wrote a piece on ecology, spirituality, and philosophy entitled “White Baby Jesus Vs. Dark Ecology” for my Aroma of the World blog. Our comrade Matt, aka Bypolar the Toxic …| Black Orchid Collective
Alan Milchman (Mac Intosh) 1940-2021 Internationalist PerspectiveIssue 57: Fall/Winter 2010 [PDF] Marx’s critical theory exposed a mode of production, a civilization, based on value, which he descr…| communists in situ
“For the end of the social revolution is to work as little as possible, and to enjoy as much as possible.” Paul Lafargue (1841-1911), Karl Marx’s son-in-law, was a leading mem…| communists in situ
