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  1. "In 2022, when Mike Davis died at age seventy-six, obituary writers rightly praised his radicalism, his anti-imperialism, his warnings of environmental catastrophe, and the sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism with which he observed capitalism’s dystopian transformation of Los Angeles and other cities. Many called him “the prophet of doom.”

    His energy was enormous. He had twenty books to his name, and some, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Planet of Slums, have become classics with an ever-widening influence. But his rough, tough, working-class persona, forged in the gritty, downscale reaches of the Southern California suburban frontier, has often obscured his relationship to the ideas and texts that he encountered, mastered, revised, and deployed in a forty-year outpouring of work whose vitality and breath continues to astound readers. So how did Mike Davis, the San Diego County redneck, become Mike Davis, the transatlantic intellectual, a man whose first book and his last were histories of the working class?"

    jacobin.com/2025/07/mike-davis

    #Marxism #MikeDavis #Capitalism #History #Urbanism

  2. I had never heard of Lu Märten before my reading this evening.

    I am sure that my ignorance will strike some as at best laughable.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_M%C3%

    #LuMärten #ArtTheory #Aesthetics #Marxism #Feminism #Germany

  3. Study. Learn. Organize.

    "Theory is important to those of us who are struggling to transform society because it offers distilled experiences so we don't have to repeat mistakes." -Leslie Feinberg (1949-2014)

    #TransLiberationNow #communist #socialist #socialism #communism #marx #marxism #laborwave #lgbt #lgbtqrights

  4. So what does this all mean?

    It means that #Marx and #Riccardo, and #HenryGeorge were all correct.

    There is no workable system of #Capitalism that will not become some form of #Manorialism then #LateStageCapitalism and finally #Fasicsm.

    Here I'm defining Capitalism specifically a any system that allows arbitrarily large wealth accumulation.

    I do not think there is any possible purely #political nor purely #economic solution. Rather, every solution proposed must inherently be a #PoliticalEconomy that is resistant to the accumulation of power and a political system that is resistant to the accumulation of power.

    Do I think #Marxist #Socialism is such a system? No! Absolutely not. I think #HenryGeorge was prescient when he called #Marxism a recipe for #Authoritarianism.

    Marx never proposed a political system that was even moderately robust to corruption.

    Likewise, I think preventing returns to capital is bad. We _want_ individual people to invest their surplus into making bursts of short term profit. That is the actual value add capitalism brings.

    Assuming you had a political system resistant to corruption, then #Taxes are a possible solution. One could, for example, place a small tax on wealth, creating gravitational pressure of the returns to capital. Set to the right level, this should be able to resist massive wealth accumulation.

    I'll have to save my thoughts on political systems to later.

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  5. Conference: „(De)Politicising Art Studies“ (10-11 Nov, TU Berlin)

    Here is the program of a conference on Marxist Art History, organised by the working group 'ende der kunstgeschichte' of Ulmer Verein.

    On day 2 I moderate a panel on Museum Critique and Marxist Art History.

    arthist.net/archive/40388

    #arthistory #museumstudies #marxism #kunstgeschichte #artstudies #museums #arttheory

  6. I just got these #books today from @pmpress. I'm super excited to read Revolutionary Affinities—I've been looking forward to it since i first heard about it on #CoffeeWithComrades.
    The other books are obviously really dope though and I'm excited to check them out. Surviving the Future looks very interesting. and getting a journal issue is always fun.
    #PMPress #FriendsofPMPress #Anarchism #Marxism #communism #QueerInsurgency #socialism #hashtagvomit #Bookstodon #podcast

    Coffee with Comrades: Episode 188: "The Future is Black & Red" ft. Michael Löwy and David Campbell

    Episode webpage: coffeewithcomrades.com/episode

  7. The People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) was proclaimed in Grenada #OTD in 1979, led by the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement. This turned the country into the only communist state within the British Commonwealth. Under the PRG’s guidance, employment was greatly reduced, mothers were granted increased maternity leave, cooperatives were established, and many other measures were enacted.

    Today's art source: espionart.com/2018/10/30/the-b

    #history #Grenada #Marxism #communism #HiaG #Mar12