#marxism — Public Fediverse posts

Red paint makes everything better 😊

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2063713/red-paint-makes-everything-better

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary #VijayPrashad
“The widespread misery imposed by #capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective #struggle ; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.”
#socialism #antiimperialism #marxism
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/newsletterissue-socialism-is-possible/

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary #VijayPrashad
“The widespread misery imposed by #capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective #struggle ; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.”
#socialism #antiimperialism #marxism
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/newsletterissue-socialism-is-possible/

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary #VijayPrashad
“The widespread misery imposed by #capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective #struggle ; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.”
#socialism #antiimperialism #marxism
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/newsletterissue-socialism-is-possible/

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary #VijayPrashad
“The widespread misery imposed by #capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective #struggle ; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.”
#socialism #antiimperialism #marxism
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/newsletterissue-socialism-is-possible/

The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary #VijayPrashad
“The widespread misery imposed by #capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective #struggle ; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.”
#socialism #antiimperialism #marxism
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/newsletterissue-socialism-is-possible/

Offered without comment:

https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/

#AI #Marxism #AIAgents #Labour

I went on a panel with some socialists from Arizona about #capitalism We discussed capitalism, and I especially focused on President Michael Crow's restructuring of the university from the standpoint of the New Left.

https://youtu.be/bEOyHpC0uUI?si=YQm0rIBCOnwV93dQ

#marxism #asu #arizona #socialism

"The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West with A.J.A. Woods" - Acid Horizon

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1064269/episodes/19153076

Really good, maps how certain conspiracy theories appear precisely in moments of social representation crisis (to counter a chaotic Outside).

Interesting also the discussion around the 'success' of the right vs a left that apparently can't get its ideas through.

#AcidHorizon #marxism #philosophy

when the revolution comes
#anarchism #marxism #history #economics #politics #memes

RE: https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116554649328288166

If you see someone stealing, no you didn't.

Until we have true solidarity between what Marx deemed the "lumpenproletariat", ie folks with various reasons for being homeless and/or jobless*, and those of us with the privilege of having extra shit like cars, we will continue to have our shit taken just like the rich. I don't want to hear complaints about your car getting broken into until we are ALL ready to stand with those "below" us against our collective oppressors.That person is starving, you can go without a back window.

* One of the things I disagree with Marx on. He viewed them as a detriment to the revolution, too dependent on the systems. Anyone who's ever been or known someone on food stamps or unemployment knows just how stupid that conclusion is. Those things are intentionally demeaning, leading to deep seeded resentments.

#anarchism #quote #bot #RepostNotABot #Revolution #revolt #marxism #anarchism #proletariat #lumpenproletariat #homeless #unemployed #solidarity

RE: https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116554649328288166

If you see someone stealing, no you didn't.

Until we have true solidarity between what Marx deemed the "lumpenproletariat", ie folks with various reasons for being homeless and/or jobless*, and those of us with the privilege of having extra shit like cars, we will continue to have our shit taken just like the rich. I don't want to hear complaints about your car getting broken into until we are ALL ready to stand with those "below" us against our collective oppressors.That person is starving, you can go without a back window.

* One of the things I disagree with Marx on. He viewed them as a detriment to the revolution, too dependent on the systems. Anyone who's ever been or known someone on food stamps or unemployment knows just how stupid that conclusion is. Those things are intentionally demeaning, leading to deep seeded resentments.

#anarchism #quote #bot #RepostNotABot #Revolution #revolt #marxism #anarchism #proletariat #lumpenproletariat #homeless #unemployed #solidarity

Morning Star boosts Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism.

What is (or was) ‘Western Marxism’?

“Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY”

Much as I like the Library, and Chartist has had AGMs there, this is complete piffle.

“The term “Western Marxism” was popularised by Perry Anderson, editor of the journal New Left Review, in his book Considerations on Western Marxism, published in September 1976. For Anderson Western Marxism was “a product of defeat”: of the failure of the Russian Revolution to spread throughout Europe and the impact on the Soviet Union’s development by its encirclement by hostile forces — before, during and subsequent to the second world war.  

Some “left” intellectuals were unable to come to terms with the contradictory realities of building a state capable of withstanding the military and economic aggression of imperialism and dismissed or ignored the way that the consolidation of power in what became the USSR inspired anti-colonial revolutions elsewhere, not least in China, Vietnam and Cuba as well as Africa and Latin America.  ”

Note, where are they now? Can the ‘Marx Memorial Library’ name a single successful post-colonial socialist state? As states China and Vietnam have had succesess, but ‘socialist’? Please.

“They withdrew from action to change the world into the academy; retreating from political and economic issues (especially those of class and imperialism) in favour of philosophic and aesthetic concerns typified according to Gabriel Rockhill, a prominent critic, by “Eurocentric social chauvinism […] the dogmatic rejection of actually existing socialism.”  

Note: the vast majority of people in the Frankfurt school, and other names cited, let alone toffs like Anderson and the New Left Review EB, never were anything other than academics.

“An example is Hannah Arendt (one of the few women) in her switch from the left to cold war identification of the USSR under Stalin with Hitler’s Germany as equal in “totalitarianism.”  “

I suggest the learned Marx Memorial Library reads this, In her 1963 book On Revolution, Hannah Arendt (one of my favourite books, though I disagree strongly with her over-positive view of the American Constitution) “She contrasts the failed French Revolution (driven by economic necessity) with the successful American Revolution (driven by political freedom), advocating for a “council system” to ensure direct citizen participation. That is, her um workers’ councils (she was influenced by her husband Heinrich Blücher (1899–1970), who had aben member of a small anti-Stalinist group called the Communist Party Opposition which backed workers’ councils.

…..

Importantly there is today growing evidence of the CIA’s recruitment of intellectuals as instruments, whether they knew it or not, of America’s role in the “Western” development of Marxism itself, producing a “version of Marxism that is ultimately compatible with capitalist interests.”

Ah…..

“Gabriel Rockhill’s recent book, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? is reviewed in the current issue of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School’s journal Theory and Struggle (free online to Library members) together with an edited transcription of an interview — tinyurl.com/Rockhill-PipersInterview on the MML website.“

I think one of the most beautiful texts in #marxism (to me at least) is Rosa Luxemburg's 'Order Prevails in Berlin'. It was the last piece she wrote, a few hours before she was brutally murdered by the counter-revolutionary, proto-fascist Freikorps. In it, she expresses an eternal hope for the future, how every defeat of socialism is just another lesson learned on the path to inevitable victory. If not now, then tomorrow, or maybe next year, or some future generation, but victory nonetheless.

It's a hope, a certainty, that no longer exists, in my mind, thanks to the capitalist-induced #ClimateCrisis

Though, to be sure, this doesn't imply defeatism, but should urge us to built our struggle on post-hope foundations.

#ClimateDiary #RosaLuxemburg #PostHope

"But he's hurting SHITLIBS too! That makes him based!"

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2050223/but-he-s-hurting-shitlibs-too-that-makes-him-based

"But he's hurting SHITLIBS too! That makes him based!"

"But he's hurting SHITLIBS too! That makes him based!"

"But he's hurting SHITLIBS too! That makes him based!"

"But he's hurting SHITLIBS too! That makes him based!"

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2050223/but-he-s-hurting-shitlibs-too-that-makes-him-based

the two most stolen items in the world
#anarchism #marxism #memes #economics #politics #history

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Zum 208. Geburtstag ✊🏼🚩
Seine Gedanken und
Philosophie sind heute aktueller denn je ✊🏼🚩

#marx #marxism #fckcapitalism #sozialstaat #arbeiterklasse #TaxTheRich #socialism

Zum 208. Geburtstag ✊🏼🚩
Seine Gedanken und
Philosophie sind heute aktueller denn je ✊🏼🚩

#marx #marxism #fckcapitalism #sozialstaat #arbeiterklasse #TaxTheRich #socialism

Zum 208. Geburtstag ✊🏼🚩
Seine Gedanken und
Philosophie sind heute aktueller denn je ✊🏼🚩

#marx #marxism #fckcapitalism #sozialstaat #arbeiterklasse #TaxTheRich #socialism

Zum 208. Geburtstag ✊🏼🚩
Seine Gedanken und
Philosophie sind heute aktueller denn je ✊🏼🚩

#marx #marxism #fckcapitalism #sozialstaat #arbeiterklasse #TaxTheRich #socialism

The Dice Are Always Loaded

Our money is evolving as debt; it represents debt, and at this late date, debt with interest. It has been evolving as debt for 5000 years, and David Graeber explained this evolution in detail.

But evolution does not confer correctness on a definition. Indeed, evolution is a process of trial and error, and the errors are eliminated without mercy.

Money is almost universally regarded as a claim on a nation’s wealth: an idea we share, and this makes sense to us because debt is an idea. Everybody knows what money is.

“It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So” – Josh Billings.

What if money really represents something else?

If a fisherman and a baker meet on a road and exchange 2 fish for 5 loaves, they are not swapping ideas. If the baker had money, not loaves, the fisherman would not go home to chew on a conjecture offered by someone he’d never met. Money as debt correctly abandons barter as an origin story, just as Graeber explains. It also incorrectly eliminates trade without trust, carelessly abandoning the simplest possible exchange of goods.

“Money is a commodity—and it can be anything—that a society agrees to accept in exchange for every other commodity or service within that society. It ultimately represents the work the holder of the money exchanged with that society to get it.”

Ideas are not subject to the Laws of Thermodynamics; work is.

And if money represents work, it must also be subject to those laws.

And it turns out that the Laws are radically anti-capitalistic.

In The Dice Are Always Loaded, I offer a different understanding of money and ownership. This connects money to the laws of the universe and overturns the money tables in the temple of Mammon. War, Inequality, Overconsumption, Environmental devastation, Planned Obsolescence, and Slavery; all the messes our human societies keep making can be found here.  

Most essays about our terrible problems end there and offer no real solutions. After providing the evidence and logic for its definitions, The Dice Are Always Loaded discusses in detail how a functioning human society operates within the laws, from advertising to farming to delivering truthful news to an entire society.

I call the resulting socio-economic system “Mahinism,” because “Mahi” is te Reo Māori for “work.”

To understand better just how disruptive this understanding is, here are the Laws as they apply to money.

First Law: Ownership of anything cannot make money. Conservation of Energy applies.

Second Law: Money cannot be a lasting store of value. Entropy applies.

Consider the business model of a bank: it collects interest on the money it loans to you because it owns the money it lends to you.

Consider the business model of a Landlord, who collects rent without doing work. A society that rejects these things is possible, but it is very different from what we do today.

We are paying people who are not working for their ownership of the things we need to live. As a result, they have massive piles of money with which to purchase Members of Parliament, Senators, Congressmen, Supreme Court Justices, and Presidents. They own our laws, and when that is not sufficient, they buy our news media to ensure we never see the truth.

It needs to stop.

The people in the owning class are not all bad, but “the love of money is the root of all evil” is one of the basic truths of our major religions. The problem is not the people; it is the existence of the massive piles of money and the ease with which they corrupt even the best governments.

The Dice Are Always Loaded draws on many sources, but it was first written by an engineer using only the Laws; that was 15 years ago, and the author cites several previous efforts. It is not the first attempt to correct our error in defining money, but it may be the last chance for human civilization before nature erases our mistake.

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This is, technically, the second edition of “Making Money Real.” It exists because self-help books about money are ignored by people who might be interested in dismantling Capitalism. References on this site may include aspects of the first book. This post, however, becomes the anchor for everything else I do.

The book is to be published through “YourBooks” in New Zealand, and through “Draft2Digital” elsewhere in the world. New Zealand gets color printing. Greyscale images for everyone else. I can’t afford fancy.

The errata pages will change over shortly.

"With more than 100 million people, #WestBengal electorate is larger than #Germany's"

West Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant to #BJP and #Modi, until now.

It went from hard-Left #Communism / #Marxism for more than 3 decades before electing a centrist party, and now it has taken a #FarRight turn under #BhartiyaJantaParty, the Party known for its #Hindutva nationalist/religious zeal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pdvp5x5ro

"With more than 100 million people, #WestBengal electorate is larger than #Germany's"

West Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant to #BJP and #Modi, until now.

It went from hard-Left #Communism / #Marxism for more than 3 decades before electing a centrist party, and now it has taken a #FarRight turn under #BhartiyaJantaParty, the Party known for its #Hindutva nationalist/religious zeal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pdvp5x5ro

"With more than 100 million people, #WestBengal electorate is larger than #Germany's"

West Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant to #BJP and #Modi, until now.

It went from hard-Left #Communism / #Marxism for more than 3 decades before electing a centrist party, and now it has taken a #FarRight turn under #BhartiyaJantaParty, the Party known for its #Hindutva nationalist/religious zeal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pdvp5x5ro

In #Poland there was one interesting figure Iwo Czerniawski that was active on the left-wing scene back in 2000’s but since then largely became disillusioned, cynical and retracted himself from political life. Nonetheless, I’ve recently stumbled upon one of his few public statements made in 2022[^1] and wanted to highlight it, as it’s a textbook example of the mess that long-term exposure to #Marxism historical materialism makes of people’s brains.

There are a number of reasons why this had to happen. Russian intervention in Ukraine was inevitable. This is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine. It is an attempt to establish a new geopolitical order, according to the experts responsible for shaping Russia’s current policy – a measures deemed essential to safeguard Russian statehood.

Let’s hold here - “measures deemed essential to safeguard Russian statehood” – which statehood exactly and “deemed essential” by whom?

“Deemed essential” by Putin in order to protect Putin’s self-perpetuating kleptocracy? That’s the only context where this statement makes sense semantically.

But what exactly laws of physics compel Russian society to live under such a system? Did anyone actually ask Russian society if they want to live under such “statehood” and “protect it”?

Well, obviously there’s no objective reasons for any of the above. This thinking where “Russia is compelled” it is solely the result of the internalisation of historical determinism, which is extremely contagious among former Marxists. In other words, they believe “Russia must” do things because that is what the “iron laws of history” dictate. And this is, of course, pseudoscientific nonsense, a kind of quasi-religious belief with no factual evidence.

In the quoted paragraph, we find plenty of these “musts”. Let me highlight the sheer absurdity of this narrative – on the one hand, Russia is the largest country in the world and Putin the most powerful ruler, and all it takes is for Putin to “raise an eyebrow for Kyiv to fall” (a direct quote from Solovyov).

And at the same time, this omnipotent Putin and this mighty Russia are constantly “having to” do something. First, he “had to” take over all state and public media; then he “had to” kill journalists; then he “had to” violate the constitution by running for a third term; then he “had to” annex Crimea, and so on. Now he has reached the stage where he “has to” put 1.5 million Russians through the meat grinder… for what exactly? To capture Pleshchiyivka in the Donetsk Oblast?

The double think of people who subscribe to this strange brand of historicism lies precisely in the fact that, on the one hand, with a certain masochistic zeal, they admire Putin’s omnipotent, extremely authoritarian system, which is not constrained by all this “democratic drivel”; and on the other hand, in the very same breath, they deny Putin any agency whatsoever, reducing him to the role of a passive pawn of some mysterious laws of history. And they switch between these entirely opposing narratives as they wish.

Well, but when it comes to double think, fans of Marxism and materialist dialectics have never had a problem. 😉

[^1]: https://efir7.pl/artykuly/co-robic-konflikt-na-ukrainie-2022-potrzebna-nowa-cywilizacja-moje-stanowisko-iwo

Here’s a bonus reading for International Workers’ Day (May Day) on the centennial of the six-month British Miners’ Strike of 1926

#marxism #socialism #communism #stalin #ussr #sovietunion #uk #labor #union #history #politics #economy #poland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDjcE9JXiY

Here’s a bonus reading for International Workers’ Day (May Day) on the centennial of the six-month British Miners’ Strike of 1926 #marxism #socialism #communism #stalin #ussr #sovietunion #uk #labor #union #history #politics #economy #poland www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NDj...

#GeneralStrike | "The British ...

Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth
#ecosocialism #marxism #EcoMarxism #metabolicrift
https://mronline.org/2026/04/28/metabolic-rifts-capitalisms-assault-on-the-earth/

"A United Front from Chamberlain to Trotsky" | Revolution in China & Tasks of the Comintern, A Speech Delivered at the Tenth Sitting of the Eighth Plenum of the ECCI (Communist International) (1927) by Stalin

#marxism #communism #socialism #sovietunion #ussr #russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltYVzPW4IKw

@crankylinuxuser @foolishowl

1. Can you elaborate on this objection to #Marxism?
2. There are arguments against #capitalism with zero reference to Marxism. Such arguments for #anticapitalism have been developed in modern terms by David Ellerman. Here is a PBS article introducing his argument for #WorkerCooperatives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
3. This results from insufficient attention to inalienable democratic rights in their theory. #Marx famously rejected #HumanRights

#coops #cooperatives

@crankylinuxuser @foolishowl

1. Can you elaborate on this objection to #Marxism?
2. There are arguments against #capitalism with zero reference to Marxism. Such arguments for #anticapitalism have been developed in modern terms by David Ellerman. Here is a PBS article introducing his argument for #WorkerCooperatives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
3. This results from insufficient attention to inalienable democratic rights in their theory. #Marx famously rejected #HumanRights

#coops #cooperatives

@crankylinuxuser @foolishowl

1. Can you elaborate on this objection to #Marxism?
2. There are arguments against #capitalism with zero reference to Marxism. Such arguments for #anticapitalism have been developed in modern terms by David Ellerman. Here is a PBS article introducing his argument for #WorkerCooperatives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
3. This results from insufficient attention to inalienable democratic rights in their theory. #Marx famously rejected #HumanRights

#coops #cooperatives

@crankylinuxuser @foolishowl

1. Can you elaborate on this objection to #Marxism?
2. There are arguments against #capitalism with zero reference to Marxism. Such arguments for #anticapitalism have been developed in modern terms by David Ellerman. Here is a PBS article introducing his argument for #WorkerCooperatives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
3. This results from insufficient attention to inalienable democratic rights in their theory. #Marx famously rejected #HumanRights

#coops #cooperatives

@crankylinuxuser @foolishowl

1. Can you elaborate on this objection to #Marxism?
2. There are arguments against #capitalism with zero reference to Marxism. Such arguments for #anticapitalism have been developed in modern terms by David Ellerman. Here is a PBS article introducing his argument for #WorkerCooperatives :
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-the-case-for-employee-owned-companies
3. This results from insufficient attention to inalienable democratic rights in their theory. #Marx famously rejected #HumanRights

#coops #cooperatives

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie + What I've Been Reading + More...

https://youtu.be/8VPP8AFrHhE

#movies #cinemastodon #books #bookstodon #socialism #anarchism #marxism

"Certainly, if the taking over by the state of the tobacco industry is socialistic, then Napoleon and Metternich must be numbered among the founders of socialism."
- Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring 1877

#marxism #socialism #communism #socialist #communist #marxist #marx #engels #political #quotes #quote #history

Western Marxism. How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn. Domenico Losurdo. Review: from Marxism to Power.

Western Marxism How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn by Domenico Losurdo Edited by Gabriel Rockhill Monthly Review Press.

As the student revolutionary, Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St Custard’s, would say, ‘Any fule know’ that Perry Anderson in Consideration on Western Marxism ended by expressing hopes for the “eventual reunification of theory and practice in mass revolutionary movements”. That “the growth of international class struggles since the late sixties has for the first time since the defeat of the Left Opposition in Russia, started to create an objective possibility of the reappearance of the political ideas associated with Trotsky in central areas of working-class debate and activity” (P101).

In his afterword the once radical New Leftist wrote of Lenin’s failure to develop a “systematic theory of the representative bourgeois democratic state in the advanced capitalist countries” (P 117). One is no doubt supplied much later by Anderson’s attacks on the European Union’s “lacquered synarchy” and belief that outside the EU British sovereignty, would be the new site of popular struggle. (Hostile summary: Why the UK’s system of government is vastly superior to the European Union)

Exeunt leftist Anderson, and his New Left Review colleagues, for the Peculiarities of the British.

Domenico Losurdo has a different take. In Western Marxism he shouts, “Anderson proclaimed the excellence of Western Marxism finally liberated from the suffocating embrace of Eastern Marxism” (P 41) “Abandoning to their fate Eastern Marxism, Western Marxism would be rid of something that had clipped its wings and prevented it from flying high. in reality, the success and even the triumph of Western Marxism and Eurocommunism would be revealed be short-lived. The times rapidly brought about the death of both.” (P 143-4)

In the Introduction Jennifer Ponce de León and Gabriel Rockhill put the Western Marxist phrase-mongers in their place, “professional intellectuals ensconced in elite networks in the global north and are part of what some call the new petty bourgeoise, meaning the professional-managerial stratum in the imperialist core. P 26 – not exactly what Nicos Poulantzas had in mind when he coined the term, he referred to salaried employees who work in offices, sales, and service sectors.

Western Marxism is largely a rogues’ roll-call of these intellectuals. Althusser, Bloch, Horkheimer, and Michel Foucault (who is referred to, yes, in this context..), with some nasty jibes at Hannah Arendt. She had, no a doubt contestable, admiration for the US independent Constitution. that was (indeed the case) of a slave-owning society. But…. and who advanced the “thesis that colonialism and imperialism are foreign to the united state” ? (P 163) . It is a long long list, from Toni Negri and Michel Hardt, to, more recently, Slavoj Žižek. The Slovenian philosopher has “cleared the terrain of the categories of the Third World, imperialism, anti-imperialism, and so forth..” (P 188)

The Index includes no reference to the much deeper influence of the British Marxist historians, like E.P. Thompson or indeed Isaac Deutscher, whose book, Stalin: A Political Biography (1949; expanded edition 1966) is recommended in the context of the present book.

To return to the Introduction “The Chinese development model offers a crucial alternative to the capitalist West as the Chinese Communist Party seek a form if modernisation characterised by people-centred development and the ‘harmonious coexistence between man and nature.” (P 31). Remote from power Western Marxism “has nothing but contempt for the independence of China and Vietnam and their efforts in the economic sphere, to make “as Deng Xiaoping declared, a real contribution to humanity’ ” (P 262)

As Cde Molesworth would say: Chiz!

#marxism #capitalism #cxu #democracy #climatechange #buchtipp #GraceBlakeley

Black Marxists and the character of an African Leninist economy
By Nana Osei-Opare
#Marxism #AntiImperialism #socialism #Ghana
https://roape.net/2026/04/22/black-marxists-and-the-character-of-an-african-leninist-economy/

💥Announcement! Saturday 25.04.2026💥

📜 Introductory Course on Marxism: Commodity, Value, Money 📜

Saturday, 25.04.2026 | 10:00 am | MaHalle, Waldemarstraße 110, 10997 Berlin

Arrival: U1, U3 Görlitzer Bahnhof | Bus 140 Waldemarstraße / Manteuffelstraße

📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=16863 - @rotejugendakademie

#b2504 #Marxism

What exactly is meant by the critique of capitalism?

In this event, we want to explore how capitalism works.

To do this, we will look at what actually happens when a worker works for a capitalist and what this has to do with exploitation.

We will examine the fundamentals of Marx’s critique of political economy and would like to discuss them.

As always, no prior knowledge is required, but anyone who would like to prepare in advance can take a look at our website.

We look forward to seeing you!

April 25th: Ecosocialism Forum to host Ian Angus, author of “Metabolic Rifts”
#ecosocialism #marxism #climatecrisis
https://monthlyreview.org/april-25th-ecosocialism-forum-to-host-ian-angus-author-of-metabolic-rifts/