In 1939, George Orwell coined the phrase "Judeo-Christian ethic" to include the values that formed the moral foundation of Western civilization. This ethic influenced the American founders and helped shape their views on liberty, rights, and law. Post-Enlightenment philosophers have criticized the irrational aspects of religion and its role in the politics of state, but most have acknowledged the role that the Judeo-Christian ethic has served in preserving the fabric of society. The idea that...| Blaze Media
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
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
This text is one of the GIC’s three preliminary studies of Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (1935). These studies are important because they clarify the political framework of the Fundamental Principles more than the 1930 edition of the...| Left wing communism
“Thoughts on the Fundamental Principles of Communists Production and Distribution” [1] The two main criticisms raised by Angry Workers can be summarised in their own words as follows: On the first point: The “communist mode of production” The Fundamental Principles...| Left wing communism
By Prapti Mukherjee, Deputy Editor Gothic horror has long been regarded as a genre that draws on ancient folklore to explore contemporary social anxieties. Its proliferation can be traced to the 18th century, a time of sociopolitical reform, class anxiety, and the emergence of industrial capitalism. Adam Smith describes consumption as the ‘sole end and […]| Arthashastra
He knew bureaucracy is bullshit| UnHerd
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
Every August, the regional Kansas City Federal Reserve holds a symposium for the world’s central bankers to consider their role in economic policy and important developments in the world economy. The head of the US Federal Reserve usually presents a summary of how he (or she) sees the state of US economy and what actionContinue reading "Jackson Hole 2025: monetary policy, demography and productivity"| Michael Roberts Blog
It’s mid-summer in the Northern hemisphere, so I thought it might be the time for a quiet review of some books on the trends in the world economy. These are short reviews without much depth and I am excluding new books coming up that deserve fuller accounts. Let’s start with a couple of books thatContinue reading "Dollar decline; the failures of mainstream economics and epochal crisis – reviews"| 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
As the Socialist Republic of Vietnam gears up for massive celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and the September 2nd proclamation of the then Democratic Republic of Vietnam by President Ho Chi Minh, a Chinese Marxist scholar has said that the country exemplifies the successful fusion of socialism and a market economy. … Continue reading Chinese scholar says Vietnamese socialism is a new theoretical model for global socialism and a reference for developing count...| Friends of Socialist China
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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 weekend the 18th Congress of the World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) took place in Istanbul, Turkey.. WAPE is a Chinese-run academic economics organisation, linking up with Marxist economists globally. “Even though that might seem like bias, the WAPE forums and journals still provide an important outlet to discuss all the developments in the world capitalist economy fromContinue reading "WAPE 2025: geopolitics, economic models and multi-polarity"| Michael Roberts Blog
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
Det sjunkande barnafödandet i flertalet utomafrikanska länder är sakta men säkert på väg att bli en politisk fråga, bland andra Elon Musk och Anna Björklund har tagit upp den. Frågan tas till synes högst motvilligt upp, det är med kniven mot strupen etablissemanget kommer släppa in den i åsiktskorridoren, detta bland annat då vår nuvarande […]| Motpol.nu
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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 about 19% of the Magnificent 7. The S&P 500 has never been more concentrated in a single stock than it isContinue reading "AI: bubbling up"| Michael Roberts Blog
Tomorrow, a key election takes in the G7 economy, Japan. The focus is on whether the ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner Komeito, which together suffered …| Michael Roberts Blog
Jan Myrdal (1927-2020) var en av de genuina svenska intellektuella, jämför kontinentala motsvarigheter som Debord och Castoriadis, intelligent, bildad och aldrig rädd för kontroverser. Det sistnämnda innebär att man sannolikt inte höll med honom i allt, han var däremot alltid en intressant bekantskap. Detta gäller även hans sista bok, Ett andra anstånd. Skriven efter att […]| motpol.nu
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 online platforms (business people say stupid shit about it) before I shifted my research wholly into Greco-Latin poetry, but I still like the analysis and sometimes wish I could refer to it. So, here it is! Sorry for any eighteen-year-old bullshit. Also I removed the footnotes because they were annoying to reformat, but the works cited section is still there.| Traverse Fantasy
“Bitcoin is a speculation and not an investment. Not regulated, not backed by any asset, only worth what someone is willing to pay.” — Matthew Stephenson “It’s totally absolutely crazy, stupi…| Michael Roberts Blog
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi | NO
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 issue,…| 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 proselytize radical liberalism right before the American Revolution.| Traverse Fantasy
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
UPDATE: Dinodoxy with a good addendum in the comments: I propose a follow up question / topic of discussion of what it means to be an American. Not in the sense of how do different people become on…| Founding Questions
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
Chuang Kollektiv Trumps Handelskrieg ist zurück – größer, lauter und irgendwie noch dümmer. Manche sagen, dieses Mal sei es anders. Aber wie die meisten Fortsetzungen ist die Handlung vertraut. Die Figuren sind abgenutzt. Die Filmemacher scheinen entschlossen zu sein, immer wieder die gleichen Szenen zu drehen. Wie wird er enden? Wahrscheinlich verdammt ähnlich wie das […]| NO
Jasper Bernes Joshua Clover ist Ende April dieses Jahres verstorben. Im November letzten Jahres hatte er uns noch eine kluge, poetische Video-Botschaft für die Veranstaltung geschickt, die wir, Freunde und Genossen von Achim Szepanski, im Gedenken an Achim in Berlin veranstaltet haben. Achim Szepanski hatte uns im September letzten Jahres für uns alle überraschend ebenfalls […]| NO
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 heter…| 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
South Korea goes to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new president after some tumultuous months following the attempted coup by the right-wing president Yoon Suk-yeol to arrest opposition leaders an…| Michael Roberts Blog
The US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress, in which the Republican party has a slender majority, has passed President Donald Trump’s government budget proposals. Trump call…| Michael Roberts Blog
Canada has a snap general election today. It’s been called by the new prime minister Mark Carney, the newly elected leader of the incumbent Liberal party government. The Liberals had been led…| 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
We reproduce the article from Tridni Valka from their blog CLASS WAR see link at the end We publish here a text from the German-speaking group AST (Anti-political Social-revolutionary Tendency) that we translated into English and French. Our overall assessment is that we appreciate the militant efforts of these comrades, especially when it comes to… Continue reading For the creation of a global network of revolutionary anarchists and anti-Leninist communists!→| AnarCom Network
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
The focus for the 2024 Marx Reading Group will be Marx’s writings on Non-Capitalist Social Formations. Topics discussed will include the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the accelerationist vibes of Marx and Engels’ 1840s writings, modes of production and non-linear history, Marx’s later rejection of evolutionary models, Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks, and Marx’s comments on several ... Read more| 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
Kerby Anderson provides an overview of wokeness, critical race theory, and their effect on the Christian church.| 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
[The following is an English translation of the first part of a 1929 text from L’Ouvrier Communiste on the Leninism and the national question, you can also find it in French here. We have translated and published this text for its immense value as a polemic piece against certain conceptions still circulating today, however, we […]| League of Internationalist Communists
[We publish here a new pamphlet, from our comrades in Barbaria, about the recent floods in Spain that have killed over 200 people and caused injury to many more. It can also be found here in English, Spanish, Russian, Catalan, and French.] By now, we know the story well. The hundreds of dead and missing […]| League of Internationalist Communists
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
There’s been Abenomics in Japan; Modinomics in India and Bidenomics in the US. Now we have Securonomics in Britain. This is slick terminology for the basics of the UK’s new Labour gover…| 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
Dialectics underscores reality's dynamic and contradictory nature, as seen in the Hegelian triad of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.| ScienceABC
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
In 2023, US real GDP grew by 2.5% after inflation – much better than expected. This has been heralded by the media and mainstream economists as refuting the doomsayers that the US economy was head…| Michael Roberts Blog
The annual meeting of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) is underway right now. The NPC is officially China’s highest deliberative body, ostensibly deciding economic and social policies…| Michael Roberts Blog
Materialism is roughly a view which places special emphasis on economic conditions- production, exchange, and consumption in the analysis of society. Materialism about power then is the view that s…| DePonySum