Mamdani’s Money Machine Driven by Radical Imams, Marxists, and of Course George Soros – Discern Report
By any honest measure, the political rise of Zohran Mamdani was not an organic grassroots movement. It was a meticulously| Discern Report
By any honest measure, the political rise of Zohran Mamdani was not an organic grassroots movement. It was a meticulously| Discern Report
An important historian discusses Christianity and secularism in Europe: Talk about a grandiose title. No, I am not setting out to write a library-worth of… The post Recent European History, Politics and Religion appeared first on CultureWatch.| CultureWatch
by Sam Franz and Véronique Mickisch| JHI Blog
Please cite as:ECPS Staff. (2025). “Virtual Workshop Series — Session 4: Performing the People: Populism, Nativism, and the Politics of Belonging.” European| ECPS
From 2002: Global capitalism triumphs at the expense of the household economy.| Modern Age
FEBRUARY, 1917. Scores of women textile workers take strike action on their own initiative. The strike mushrooms into mass meetings and demonstrations throughout Petrograd. Slogans rapidly evolve from the demand for bread to the end of the war and the … The post Daughters of Rabotnitsa: Lessons From The Russian Revolutionary Women’s Movement first appeared on Reform & Revolution.| Reform & Revolution
First, some airy-fairy stuff, because this is the kind of shit I think about, and here’s where I vent my thoughts. But I’ll throw in some pop culture kayfabe: Ignore, if you please, the hilarious incongruity of a homicide cop who’d spent years undercover as an outlaw biker, asking a skinhead meth cook if he’s … Continue reading "Overdetermination (Salon Tense Field Guide)"| Founding Questions
The US stock market continues to hit new record highs; the bitcoin price is also close to highs and the gold price has rocketed to all-time highs. Investors in financial assets (banks, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds etc) are wildly optimistic and confident about financial markets. As the chair of Rockefeller International, Ruchir SharmaContinue reading "The AI bubble and the US economy"| Michael Roberts Blog
This week the price of gold in US dollars hit $4000 per troy oz. This is an historic high (at least in nominal dollars). But even that high looks set to be surpassed, with investment bank Goldman Sachs forecasting $4900 per oz by year end. And the gold price in other major currencies has alsoContinue reading "Gold: what’s behind the boom?"| Michael Roberts Blog
Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre have published an insightful book that explains how Marx’s theory of value operates to explain the trends and fluctuations in modern capitalist economies. Called Mar…| Michael Roberts Blog
Costanzo Preve (1943-2013) var en av de främsta italienska kännarna av marxismen, under många år själv marxist med djupa kunskaper inom filosofi och idéhistoria. Efter realsocialismens fall rörde han sig bort från vänstern och utvecklade istället en kritik av höger-vänsterdikotomin och ett alternativ i form av en kommunitär kommunism och ett fritt Europa. Han övergav […]| Motpol.nu
The following is the text of a presentation given by Carlos Martinez to the Fourth World Congress on Marxism, which took place on 11-12 October 2025 at Peking University (PKU), China, organised by PKU’s School of Marxism. The presentation gives an overview of the progress made by China in recent years with regard to clean … Continue reading China’s progress proves socialism is the only viable framework for saving the planet The post China’s progress proves socialism is the only viable...| Friends of Socialist China
CAN WEALTH AND ORDER SURVIVE? Foreword According to a recent BBC report, some of America’s wealthiest men are, or might be, investing in bunkers, or, as the article’s headline puts it, “doom preppi…| Surplus Energy Economics
Creationism doesn't get enough credit for being an essentially (post)modern ideology. "Evidence does not speak for itself," Jason Lisle and ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Tolerably often, when I’m reading any of the documents that came out of the original Situationist International, I end up feeling as though the author is caught up in a desperate struggle between his own Marxist presuppositions and the world as it actually exists. That’s common enough in 20th century Marxist literature from outside the…| Ecosophia
Between Marxist ideology, COVID mandates, Black Lives Matters, DEI, “climate” hysteria, and other absurdities, the U.S. military was going so far off the rails that many experts wondered if it could even win wars anymore. On this episode of Behind The Deep State with The New American magazine’s Alex Newman, Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF (Ret.), leader ...| The New American
The critique of Bordigism argues that consciousness plays a pivotal role in revolutionary development, contradicting Bordiga's claim that it is merely a product of revolution. Emphasizing that revolution must arise from conscious mass movements, the text challenges the notion of a party-dominated dictatorship, asserting the need for class representation over minority control.| Left wing communism
The media has reported on drones and fighter jets invading the territory of NATO allies in the Baltic region. This has been followed by denials from the Russian side and several analyses by “…| Left wing communism
by Oscar Hughff-Coates This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”| JHI Blog
Report from Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, 27th Oct A mass of flag waving was threatened to descend upon the people of Newcastle last Saturday, as thousands upon thousands were promised to be led / …| AnarCom Network
Last week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered a $20bn swap line to Javier Milei’s government in Argentina and pledged to buy its bonds, as the Trump administration moved to shore up its ideological ally. The measures temporarily halted a rout in Argentine foreign exchange and bond markets triggered by the rapid depletion of theContinue reading "Argentina: the chainsaw breaks down"| Michael Roberts Blog
The 80th edition of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) opened yesterday in New York. The theme this year is: ‘Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights’, highlighting the urgency of delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reinvigorating ‘global cooperation’. When the United Nations was born in SanContinue reading "The UN at 80: ignored and irrelevant"| Michael Roberts Blog
The 2025 conference of the International Initiative for thePromotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) just took place in Ankara, Turkey. The IIPPE was founded in 2006 with the aim of “devel…| Michael Roberts Blog
Karl Marx's domestic life reflected the highs and lows of his unwavering commitment to the Communist cause. In "Love and Capital", Mary Gabriel reveals the man behind the Marxism, centering the Marx family's colourful dynamics over half a century as they navigated the costs and tragedies of a revolutionary life.| Russophile Reads
What Charlie Kirk Believed (and Where We’ve Gone Wrong) Charlie Kirk carried a torch. He believed in the Gospel and gave his life defending principles of our faith. When he was shot and fell to the ground, it wasn’t just a microphone that he dropped. It was a torch that lit the world on fire... The post What Charlie Kirk Believed (and Where We’ve Gone Wrong) appeared first on Lifeschooling Conference.| Lifeschooling Conference
Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that’s an unimpressive pedigree for any set of ideas, and it’s been rendered even more distasteful to a great many people worldwide just now by the recent demonstration of…| Ecosophia
The US economy has a widening gap: between rising inflation on the one side and employment on the other. According to mainstream Keynesian theory, that should not happen. That’s because a weakening labour market should lead to a fall in wage increases and in consumer demand and price inflation will subside. The experience of theContinue reading "US economy: stagflation now more than a whiff"| Michael Roberts Blog
Norway has a general election today. In a country of 5.6m people, some 4m are entitled to vote and there is usually a high turnout by international standards – over 75%. Indeed, early voting has become increasingly popular, with up to 60% voting before the official day. Norwegians are probably the richest nation in theContinue reading "Norway: the fossil fuel capital of Europe"| Michael Roberts Blog
In 2019, economics professor Gita Gopinath left the halls of Harvard University to become the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Three years later, she made an unprecedented …| Michael Roberts Blog
“John Kirk” (not his real name) worked for me in the early 1990s at Microsoft.…| Ben Slivka
Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) är idag sannolikt mest känd genom sin relation till Karl Marx, i likhet med många av Marx relationer var den först positiv och senare negativ. Bauer var en intressant tänkare i sin egen rätt, han hade varit en av Hegels studenter, var en av de ledande ung- och vänsterhegelianerna och ägnade sig […]| motpol.nu
There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of strident triumphalism that most movements doomed to fail seem to adopt, some at the very beginning of their trajectories, others once they pass their peak and start down…| Ecosophia
Nearly 50 years ago Eric Hobsbawm published an infamous essay on ‘the Forward March of Labour Halted’. Hobsbawm grasped the retreat that was beginning to take place – a retreat that in some respects would turn into a rout. There was a vitriolic response from much of the left. But many of their criticisms now look silly. Hobsbawm’s argument had a […]| Mike Haynes – The Jobbing Leftie Historian and Researcher
US President Donald Trump announced that he had fired Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Trump says that she committed mortgage fraud by taking out two mortgages, claiming both properties as her primary residence, back when she was a professor at Michigan State, before joining the Fed. Naturally, Cook dismissedContinue reading "Should central banks be ‘independent’?"| Michael Roberts Blog
A recent article in the UK’s Financial Times got very excited about the rise of intangibles. The author Tek Parikh said that “50 years go, the assets held by top 500 US companies were predomin…| Michael Roberts Blog
There is no "woman" question, there is only the question of social reproduction.| The Red Clarion
Feminism has a metaphysics problem. This isn't specific to feminism: it's just that feminism is a label applied to a variety of discourses which all claim to have the same political premise or subjective vantage, while differing in both respects—usually this is visible when describing white feminism, bourgeois feminism, liberal feminism, cishet feminism, in contrast to some idealized black feminism, proletarian feminism, radical feminism, trans feminism. It's a hall of mirrors no matter whe...| Traverse Fantasy
Last week, the mega tech companies – the so-called Magnificent Seven – presented their latest earnings results. They appeared to be ‘blockbuster’. They painted a picture of a booming economy,…| Michael Roberts Blog
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A delegation from the Academy of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences recently visited Ireland as part of a European tour that also took them to Britain and Portugal. In the following article, Gearóid Ó Machail outlines the delegation’s program in Ireland. Gearóid is a member of the National Executive Committee of the … Continue reading Strengthening ties between Irish and Chinese Marxists| Friends of Socialist China
The Magnificent 7 stocks — NVIDIA, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Apple, Meta, Tesla and Amazon — now make up around 35% of the value of the US stock market, and NVIDIA’s market value makes up…| Michael Roberts Blog
This is a paper I wrote for my first semester of undergrad in 2018. I actually wanted to expand it into a thesis about the economics of onli...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Every year, I do a post on the inequality of global wealth using the annual data compiled by economists working for the Swiss bank, Credit Suisse. But Credit Suisse is now no more, swept away by s…| Michael Roberts Blog
This week, the world’s major central bankers have gathered in the sweltering heat of Sintra, Portugal (although I am sure the the aircon is good in their swanky hotel in the hills). The big i…| Michael Roberts Blog
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein In March 2025, Franco “Bifo” Berardi published an intervention in In the Moment, where he addresses the question of subjectivity in a time of depression and panic. He asks: “How to build a healthy subject starting from … Continue reading →| In the Moment
Digital version of my pamphlet on Itch ! Investigating the historical context and legacy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense , written to prosel...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Picture generated by Wordpres AI: starting from left to right with the Kremlin (October), moving into a landscape of unknown futures…. By Fredo Corvo Spanish Communism, too early? Or from delay to …| Left wing communism
Today, world leaders gather in Seville, Spain for a UN aid summit for developing countries. This is the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development. At least 50 world leaders incl…| Michael Roberts Blog
Last week the annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) took place in London. I quote from the AHE website: “Formed in 1999 to provide an annual conference where all …| Michael Roberts Blog
As Israel and Iran trade alternate missile attacks after Israel launched a major offensive last week, US President Trump has proposed a two-week interval to negotiate a ‘surrender’ deal with Iran o…| Michael Roberts Blog
As I write, the government leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the US – are meeting in the remote town of Kananaskis, Albert…| Michael Roberts Blog
US President Donald Trump’s trade war has forced the governments of the other major economies to reconsider the whole international trading and monetary regime. The international trading ‘rul…| Michael Roberts Blog
In 2018, some activists, appalled by woke nonsense being published by academic journals, submitted nonsensical research. One paper claimed researchers “closely and respectfully examined the genitals of … ten thousand...Read More| Stossel TV
There's a cliché quote often falsely attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power." Thankfully, thi...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Some New World Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age By: Peter Harrison Capital Hates Everyone Fascism or Revolution By: Maurizio Lazzarato The Worlds of Public Health Anthropological Excursions 1st Edition By: Didier Fassin Silent Coup How Corporations Overthrew Democracy By: Claire Provost, Matt Kennard The Need for Roots By: Simone Weil On the Ecclesiastical Mystagogy A Theological Vision ... Read more| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
Spencer and Laurie visit with Chris Cutrone, a leading founder of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the author of a new book published by Sublation Media. Here's a link to Cutrone's latest book, Marxism and Politics: Essays on Critical Theory and the Party, 2006-2024, Sublation Media, 2024. Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy| The Maurin Academy for Regenerative Studies
In the digital age, rating everything—from restaurants to rideshares, podcasts to plumbers—has become second nature. But beneath this seemingly harmless habit lies a system that exploits us, reshap…| Mediacodex
Geonomics is a new term for international economic theories and policies. According to Gillian Tett at the FT, in the past, “it was generally assumed that rational economic self interest ruled the…| Michael Roberts Blog
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In the meantime, neither orphans of the labour movement, nor prophets of the communism to come, we participate in the class struggle as it is on a daily basis and as it produces theory.| Chuang
“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
…the second world conference of Communist parties was held in Moscow in November 1960. Though its proceedings were secret, enough information leaked out afterward to make clear this was a vituperative, no-holds-barred fight between the Soviet and Chinese representatives and their respective supporters. The Peking representatives denounced the attitude of the Soviet government toward their […]| radicalarchives
Shall economic life be democratically managed and controlled? Absolutely! It is the maintenance of capitalist domination of society that demands, more and more, the abandonment of democracy. A Worker’s Government would have to extend democracy continually, not merely because it is a desirable ideal, but because it is indispensable to the planning of production for […]| radicalarchives
The antisemitism of Stalin’s Doctors’ Plot — and to a lesser extent the Polish, Czech and other pseudo-antizionist antisemitic purges of the 1950s and ’60s — are remembered today. However, much less attention is paid to the Soviet Union’s conspiracy theory turn starting in the 1960s, where the previous hegemony of Orthodox Marxism was rivaled […]| radicalarchives
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
We frequently hear the term “woke” in current discussions. Campuses, corporations, and even some churches are described as being woke. What does the term mean? How are these ideas influencing society? Is there any connection to ESG mandates and stakeholder capitalism? And how should Christians respond to the influence of wokeness?| Probe Ministries
There was a tortuous and painful end to COP29, the international climate change conference held in oil-rich Baku, Azerbaijan. The main issue was how much would the rich countries hand over to the p…| Michael Roberts Blog
Marx proposed to reduce “complex” labor to “simple” labor. Does this make sense?| 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗫𝗜𝗦𝗠
For FRJ. Fredric Jameson is dead and it feels like the world has moved on its axis, a center of gravity has shifted. It is almost impossible to give a full and fair summation of Jameson’s ach…| thelitcritguy
I read so many books that I enjoy that sometimes I wonder, or worry, whether I just accept whatever I read. Thankfully, I’ve had critical re...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I watched a video that YouTube recommended like a cat dragging a dead mouse onto my front porch. I don't usually watch videos like these, an...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
My friend Ènziramire shared a paper with me, "Wages against Artwork: The Social Practice of Decommodification" by Leigh Claire La Berge. Th...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Sooooooooooo. Hi! I feel like my brain was fixed. Haven't thought about this stuff for a minute. Been writing fiction, like real actual fict...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
“Capitalism is the road to hell, to the destruction of the world. …it’s the freedom to oppress, to invade, to kill, to annihilate, and to exploit.” Hugo Chavez, 2009.| Supply and Demand (in that order)
Every August the world’s top central bankers meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a ski resort in central US for a ‘symposium’ organized by the Kansas City Federal Reserve. The bankers take this opportu…| Michael Roberts Blog
In a recent post, I reviewed an important new book by Brazilian Marxist economists Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach and Henrique Morrone. They proposed a model of economic development…| Michael Roberts Blog
The overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina’s dictatorial government in Bangladesh by students and the populace last week is a startling outcome of the economic nightmare that many so-called developing econ…| Michael Roberts Blog
Last week’s meltdown in the stock markets of the major economies, which started in the US, reversed this week. But the fall in the US S&P-500 index of the stock prices of the top 500 American c…| Michael Roberts Blog
I scanned the first message I received in my Columbia University MA English group chat. Bookmarking my copy of Ayn Rand’s We the Living, a novel about the ills of post-Revolutionary Russia, I recoiled. Reviewing the text, sent by a researcher of “imperial conspiracy” in a “postcolonial context,” I felt my vision blurring. This couldn’t […]| Minding The Campus
Last weekend the 17th Congress of the World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) took place in Athens, Greece. WAPE is a Chinese-run academic economics organisation, linking up with Marxis…| Michael Roberts Blog
At yesterday’s end July meeting, the US Federal Reserve Bank held back from cutting its policy interest rate from the current high of 5.25-5.5%. This was despite recognizing that the US econo…| Michael Roberts Blog
Venezuela has a general election tomorrow. This promises to be a decisive election that could see the end of the so-called Chavista governments, first under Hugo Chávez from 1998-2013 (o…| Michael Roberts Blog
Amidst the jostling theories about the nature of education, the philosopher G.K. Chesterton once succinctly summarized it as “simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” But what if that soul is being torn apart from within? What if today’s kids are told to despise almost everything about yesterday, in order to prepare them to overturn society tomorrow? James Pew traces the path of so-called “critical pedagogy” from the fever-dream of a Brazilian commu...| C2C Journal
The Third Plenum of the Communist Party of China ended last week. The Third Plenum is a meeting of China’s Communist Party Central Committee composed of 364 members which discusses China’s economi…| Michael Roberts Blog
The massive tech failure that caused chaos around the world raises important questions about the ownership and control of our digital world. The relatively unknown, cyber-security firm CrowdStrike…| Michael Roberts Blog
Brazilian Marxist economists Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach and Henrique Morrone have produced an important and insightful book on global capitalist development, with an innovative n…| Michael Roberts Blog
The 2024 conference of the Association of Heterodox Economists (AHE) took place this week in Bristol, England. As its name implies, the AHE brings together economists who consider themselves …| Michael Roberts Blog
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UK citizens vote in a general election on 4 July. The opinion polls currently forecast that the incumbent Conservative party will be heavily defeated after 14 years in government. The o…| Michael Roberts Blog
In 2023, it was the first time in recorded history that the global surface temperature of the planet breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline. Also more than 90% of the world’s oceans…| Michael Roberts Blog
About this time last year, I tackled the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) and the impact of the new generalised intelligence language learning models (LLMs) like ChatGPT etc. In that post I …| Michael Roberts Blog
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What is the connection between Marxist thinking, Critical Race Theory, and actions by churches (including the Church of England) to address the perceived experience of racial injustice? The question is contested, but it is not straightforward, since Critical Race Theory has a complex intellectual history, and the underlying assumptions in the debates about race and| Psephizo
Heinz Dieterich 1.Three Cancers that destroy Humanity. The idea to organize 8,103,062,575 (billion) people with about 7000 spoken languages, 300 writing systems, 4000 “unique …| Paul Cockshott's Blog
by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A gr…| winter oak
by Paul Cudenec I have always had a rather uneasy relationship with the “socialist” and “communist” left. On the one hand I have been deeply inspired by many thinkers and re…| winter oak
As activists convince us that late-stage capitalism is ending, it’s time for foundation capitalism.| The Risk-Monger
US corporate profit margins are at record highs, despite slowing price inflation and rising wage increases. Looking at the whole US economy, non-financial sector profit margins are at their h…| Michael Roberts Blog
