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Desperately seeking the untarnished
Serbian electorate is obsessed with finding angelic fresh faces "untarnished by politics", who are at the same time patriotic and "not puppets of Western powers" (read: those "fresh untarnished" politicians should also worship our dearly departed war criminals).https://serbianism.com/2026/09/05/desperately-seeking-the-untarnished/
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Desperately seeking the untarnished
Serbian electorate is obsessed with finding angelic fresh faces "untarnished by politics", who are at the same time patriotic and "not puppets of Western powers" (read: those "fresh untarnished" politicians should also worship our dearly departed war criminals).https://serbianism.com/2026/09/05/desperately-seeking-the-untarnished/
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Om två timmar startar A marxist defense of utopian thought i Stockholm!
#CMS #TransformEurope #Samtal #HBTQ #Marxism
https://www.gnistor.se/event/2026-09-05-a-marxist-defense-of-utopian-thought/ -
"The relationship between capital and labor in the ‘core’ countries is stabilized by the imperial arrangement."
by Bikrum Gill: https://progressive.international/blueprint/523d7734-45b9-4c63-9423-a86e68458cea-gill-internationalism-and-national-liberation/en/
#internationalism #marxism #genocide #USWars #imperialism #capitalism
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https://www.europesays.com/people/215012/ Elon Musk is right: Hitler was a socialist #AdolfHitler #Communism #DemocraticSocialism #ElonMusk #fascism #KarlMarx #Marxism #Musk #Nazis #socialism
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"Two marxists on the same screen," Varoufakis remarks with a smile.
America is quietly losing the world – Yanis Varoufakis & Richard D. Wolff | The #Econoclasts"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFQ9aHZpCAg
#capitalism #marxism #varoufakis #richardwolff -
Is Islam Compatible with Western Civilisation?
When someone declares that Islam is "incompatible with Western civilisation," why is the West automatically treated as the moral standard? Before you judge whether Islam fits your "Western" world, you must first prove that your world is morally defensible.https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-western-civilisation/
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https://cpmk.org/87-recent-news/444-the-vanguard-is-not-a-matter-of-opinion
Banger of a read from Kenya.
>Communists should indeed reject sectarianism.
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>Sectarianism isolates revolutionaries from the masses.
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>It substitutes slogans for investigation.
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>It mistakes organisational isolation for ideological purity.
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>But there exists another danger.
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>Liquidationism.
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>Liquidationism dissolves the communist party into the general Left.
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>It blurs ideological distinctions.
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>It dismisses organisational discipline.
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>It celebrates diversity while abandoning revolutionary coherence.
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>If sectarianism builds walls where bridges are necessary, liquidationism removes the foundations upon which the bridge itself must stand.
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>Marxism Leninism rejects both.---Booker Ngesa Omole
#politics
#kenya
#socialism
#communism
#marxism
#MarxismLeninism
#leninism
#vanguardism
#sectarianism
#liquidationism
#BookerNgesaOmole
#BookerOmole
#capitalism
#neocolonialism
#neoimperialism
#colonialism
#imperialism
#theory
#practice
#praxis
#HistoricalMaterialism
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If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?
For many, "communism" has become less a political philosophy and more a conversation stopper. But is every effort to use our shared resources to care for the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable really communism? This article examines the difference between political labels and biblical principles, comparing the teachings of the early Church with today's political rhetoric. -
In a deeply personal piece, Nathaniel Dickson reflects on the interconnected violence of borders and antitrans bigotry.
https://spectrejournal.com/notes-on-trans-migration/
#marxism #communism #socialism #capitalism #trans #lgbt #lgbtq #news #borders #bigotry #pride #spectre
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Zum 208. Geburtstag ✊🏼🚩
Seine Gedanken und
Philosophie sind heute aktueller denn je ✊🏼🚩#marx #marxism #fckcapitalism #sozialstaat #arbeiterklasse #TaxTheRich #socialism
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The Lover of Che and Marx
Samudrala Avinash Rahul Vamshi Krishna
#Capitalism #CheGuevara #Communism #Lenin #Life #Love #Marx #Marxism #Naxalite #OpiumOfTheMasses #Poem #Poetry #Rebirth #Religion #Revolutions #RosLuxemborg #SamudralaAvinashRahulVamshiKrishna #SamudralaVKIASAcademy #SundarayyaVignanaKendram #Truth #UrbanNaxal #VamshiKrishnaSamudrala #VKSamudrala
What a long name. Does not sound at all
Like the name of someone
Who belongs to the proletariat
Their names will be Pullaiah and Yellaiah
Yours sounds far too sophisticated
As sophisticated as your accent, almost like a Brit
You say you have bruxism and what not
But your accent lives on, on and on...
Making people give you a second hearing
While at 62 I am searching for my second wind...
And your gonads have not yet started firing
Were you crazy then to be stopping by
Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in Bagh Lingampally
Where that Reddy girl taking courses in statistics
Was getting distracted by you, but you were never by her
And you stuck to your guns, pretty appropriate metaphor
Since Marx and Guevara interested you so much
No skirt or some peculiar shade of lipstick
Could hold your attention for long...
Being a Naxalite appealed to you as your svadharma
Long, long ago, and when I discovered you
You were the more sauve urban naxal, so I blocked you
Lest I the guy interested more in Maharshi than Marx
Be picked up at midnight, because the smokin' gun
Of Marxian literature was plenty on my bookshelf
I who believed that the stream of truth flows
From all sources and not just from some blokes
Doing something somewhere in the Himalayas.
Then, you texted me after a long while, saying
You were now more moderate in your views
Kind of a rare conversion, maybe Rosa Luxemborg
Started appealing to you more than Lenin
And that writer of The Motorcycle Diaries
Though Che never left your bedside and your dreams.
Nowadays, you are more into studying material girls
Rather than dialectical materialism, so tell me
Where in your heart have you created a cemetery
Where you have interred Marx though not Che.
But, my dear chum, or should I call you comrade
Listen to me dyed in the whispers down the centuries
Not only of the topography including the Himalayas
But also including Thames, Seine, and Black Forest
Marx was good as far as what he wanted man to be
But in what man was now in the present
He misread him so badly that his idealism
Was bound to come a cropper, though not before
Bloody revolutions meted out the karma
To all those people who erred in their previous lives
When they took birth long before Marx was born
Including maybe the likes of Alexander Solzhenistyn
For karma is backed by God, not some floundering startup
Ah, it satisfies me so much to end with this imagery
From Capitalism, and make Marx stir in his grave
And rethink his philosophy at least when he is reborn
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"Stop patronising hijabi Muslim women by telling them to consider how other Muslim women may find hijab oppressive, as if we have not already done so.
We know how religion is weaponised in places where Muslims are the majority. We also know how your governments weaponise anti-Muslim rhetoric globally, and we understand where Islam stands in the global order.
Who are you trying to fool here?
Treating Muslim subjects as if we are insulated from that order and reminding us that “contradictions exist” is a projection of the privilege enjoyed by those who benefit from that system."
https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
#hijab #orientalism #muslim #liberalism #press #islamophobia #edwardsaid #activism #authoritarianism #marxism #liberalfeminism #Islam #Iran #afghanistan #indonesia #palestine
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"Mac and Crane are joined by J. E. to continue the discussion about Lukács's politics and his essay "Legality and Illegality." This episode goes into depth on the historical and political context of Lukács's work, debates in the Comintern, and the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution."
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Hype for the Future 68B: List of Capitalist Constructs
Overview The vast majority of symptoms of modern capitalist and hyper-capitalist societies are indeed capitalist constructs, including the following coercive outcomes: Deadlines Procrastination Laziness Safety (Normativity) Heteronormativity Wage Labor Wage Slavery Commodification Privatization Individualism (especially hyper-individualism) Inflation Paychecks Pay cuts Pay raises Ageism (ranking individuals by seniority) Corporations “Solutions” have become fake and […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/hype-for-the-future-68b-list-of-capitalist-constructs/
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"Mac and Crane discuss the essay "Legality and Illegality" by György Lukács (Georg Lukács) in the context of his broader development: after joining the Communist Party in 1918, Lukács would play an important role in the leadership of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic (March to August 1919), around which time he would write many of the essays later collected and published in Tactics and Ethics: 1919-1929, only to reverse some of his positions on core issues in his subsequent exile in Vienna, resulting in History and Class Consciousness (1923). In their discussion of the vicissitudes of fate and philosophy, Mac and Crane attempt to answer the fundamental question tragically left out of E40's classic song "Choices": Lukács - Nope or Yup?"
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Hype for the Future 25G: Against Capitalism
Capitalism is the system that perpetuates concepts of “test scores,” deadlines, procrastination, exploitation, wages, and the slavery that is necessary for such a system to function. The idea that capitalism makes a nation—or any national system or entity—free is actually a coerced notion, as society has been forced to believe that capitalism was the successful way forward for at least the past several decades, back in a time when speaking of communism or even socialism was most […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/hype-for-the-future-25g-against-capitalism/
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New article.
«The “class problem„ and it's solution.»
https://telegra.ph/The-class-problem-10-29
#marxism #socialism #revolution #leftwing #leftism #leftist #neomarxism #postmarxism #politics #philosophy #socialist
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WOKE/SJW and minorities are NOT new proletariat,and useless for world revolution:
https://telegra.ph/SJW-are-slave-of-capital-10-29
#sjw #woke #neomarxist #marxism #postmarxism #leftism #revolution
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The Kingsbury Philosophical Debates, Continued
The novaTop Community is particularly focused on identifying flawed outcomes caused by the current economic system(s) around the globe, including concerns about capitalism potentially resulting in extinction. According to Kingsbury, capitalism can actually exist without infinite growth nor the mere outcome of growth at all. Deceptichum would be identified as “uniquely wrong” (Kingsbury) because of the definition containing “unicorns” and “rainbows,” while Mojo and MrLee would […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/the-kingsbury-philosophical-debates-continued/
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Patrice Lumumba on the real history to be told
#socialism #communism #africa #lumumba #patrice #congo #freecongo #marxism #leninism
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‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’
Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:
#politics #RadicalDemocracy #Pluriverse #MichaelHardt #PostCapitalism #marxism #postmarxism
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‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’
Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:
#politics #RadicalDemocracy #Pluriverse #MichaelHardt #PostCapitalism #marxism #postmarxism
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‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’
Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:
#politics #RadicalDemocracy #Pluriverse #MichaelHardt #PostCapitalism #marxism #postmarxism
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‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’
Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:
#politics #RadicalDemocracy #Pluriverse #MichaelHardt #PostCapitalism #marxism #postmarxism
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‘We cannot simply dust off old formulas to repeat; we need take the time necessary to invent a new strategy and new organizational forms adequate to the current conjuncture.’
Michael Hardt calls for a radical reinvention of political strategy in his contribution to Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace series:
#politics #RadicalDemocracy #Pluriverse #MichaelHardt #PostCapitalism #marxism #postmarxism
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The true great derangement of our time—across cultural production, public policymaking, and every other domain—is the denialism that acknowledges the changing climate but seeks resolution through the very systems that are causing global warming.
"""https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/there-is-no-such-thing-as-green-capitalism/
#ClimateChange #geoengineering #Marxism #degrowth #GreenCapitalism #TerminationShock #NealStephenson
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redmay schedule: there must be some way out of here
src:
https://www.redmayseattle.org/scheduleRed May 2025 Schedule
There must be some way out of herehttps://www.redmayseattle.org/
https://www.facebook.com/redmayseattle/Some Way Out of Here?
Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTubeMichael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)
dir: Michael T. Workman &
Kei Pritsker
Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PMCybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeNick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeSarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel
Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTubeAlan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
(Film showing with discussion)(This is an In-person event)
David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter
The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeSandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTubeBruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni
American Constitutional Collapse
Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTubeAziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
TERFs
Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
dir: Fridrikh Ermler
Monday, May 26, 7:30 PMDe-reification and Art Now
Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTubeJaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTubeLeigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe
Whatever Happened to Revolution?
Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris RobinsonWhat Just Happened, America?
Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT
@VermillionColleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh
Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)The Future of Revolution
Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)
#AlanWald #AlbertoToscano #AlessandraMularoni #AlyssaBattistoni #AnitaChari #art #arte #AzizRana #BrettNeilson #BrunoLeipold #CamilaVergara #capitalism #ClassStruggle #ColleenLye #crisis #DavidLau #DavidShields #DelmoreSchwartz #ElliottBayBooks #EmiKoyama #feminism #feminisms #film #FridrikhErmler #IdrisRobinson #JalehMansoor #JamieMerchant #JasonRead #JasperBernes #JodiDean #KathiWeeks #KeiPritsker #KyleKubler #left #LeighClaireLaBerge #MadelineLaneMcKinley #Marxism #MattBrowning #MichaelHardt #MichaelMcCarthy #MichaelTWorkman #MinhNguyen #modernism #Nationalism #NicaSiegel #NickDyerWitheford #NickSrnicek #NikhilPalSingh #PhilipWohlstetter #planetaryCrisis #poetry #politics #RedMay #redmayseattleOrg #revolution #RoySkodnick #SandroMezzadra #SarahJaffe #SophieLewis #TERFs #ThereMustBeSomeWayOutOfHere #TommySwenson #video #wayOut
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redmay schedule: there must be some way out of here
src:
https://www.redmayseattle.org/scheduleRed May 2025 Schedule
There must be some way out of herehttps://www.redmayseattle.org/
https://www.facebook.com/redmayseattle/Some Way Out of Here?
Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTubeMichael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)
dir: Michael T. Workman &
Kei Pritsker
Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PMCybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeNick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeSarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel
Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTubeAlan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
(Film showing with discussion)(This is an In-person event)
David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter
The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTubeSandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTubeBruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni
American Constitutional Collapse
Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTubeAziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
TERFs
Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
dir: Fridrikh Ermler
Monday, May 26, 7:30 PMDe-reification and Art Now
Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTubeJaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTubeLeigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe
Whatever Happened to Revolution?
Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris RobinsonWhat Just Happened, America?
Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT
@VermillionColleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh
Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)The Future of Revolution
Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)
#AlanWald #AlbertoToscano #AlessandraMularoni #AlyssaBattistoni #AnitaChari #art #arte #AzizRana #BrettNeilson #BrunoLeipold #CamilaVergara #capitalism #ClassStruggle #ColleenLye #crisis #DavidLau #DavidShields #DelmoreSchwartz #ElliottBayBooks #EmiKoyama #feminism #feminisms #film #FridrikhErmler #IdrisRobinson #JalehMansoor #JamieMerchant #JasonRead #JasperBernes #JodiDean #KathiWeeks #KeiPritsker #KyleKubler #left #LeighClaireLaBerge #MadelineLaneMcKinley #Marxism #MattBrowning #MichaelHardt #MichaelMcCarthy #MichaelTWorkman #MinhNguyen #modernism #Nationalism #NicaSiegel #NickDyerWitheford #NickSrnicek #NikhilPalSingh #PhilipWohlstetter #planetaryCrisis #poetry #politics #RedMay #redmayseattleOrg #revolution #RoySkodnick #SandroMezzadra #SarahJaffe #SophieLewis #TERFs #ThereMustBeSomeWayOutOfHere #TommySwenson #video #wayOut
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The mass layoffs of federal workers and tech workers is most likely going to lead to a 2008 recession or Great Depression.
#workingclass
#workersdeservebetter
#workersarehumans
#marxism
#socialism
#revolution
#socialistrevolution
#laborrights -
[A long thread ball 🧶]
#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience
#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead
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"On Why I'm Leaving the Party" [CPUSA] (2024) by Khadija. #MarxistLeninist #Audiobook + Discussion of USA #Socialist & #Communist Parties, Anti-Revisionism
#marxism #marxist #communism #marxismleninism #socialism #cpusa #khadija #revisionism #antirevisionism
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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.
https://arthist.net/archive/40388
#arthistory #museumstudies #marxism #kunstgeschichte #artstudies #museums #arttheory
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An excellent discussion about the May 1968 French protests, what was really behind them but, most importantly, what they really mean for us today.
#May1968 #May68 #France #FranceRiots #FranceProtests #history #StudentMovement #nostalgia #Marixist #Marxism #revolution
https://vimeo.com/groups/129320/videos/262493786 -
Unsurprisingly, here's one Oxfam report that hasn't been plastered over our headlines:
"Since 2020, the profits of billionaires have increased by $2.7 billion a day.
If you break down those figures, you find that for every new dollar of wealth earned by someone in the bottom 90 percent of society, a billionaire has earned $1.7 million."
#Marxism #Socialism #AntiCapitalism #AntiFascism #GlobalPoverty
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CW: Defining ideology // The ideological construction of technology
Thinking about technology and ideology.
I honestly think that an alarming number of authors that are frequented in 'marxists' circles, such as Zizek, maintain a misleading conception about what "ideology" is, probably as a heirloom from freudianism and psychoanalysis. Their definition of ideology is much like "a way of thinking", or "a prescription over our forms of desire". And, indeed, ideology is a moulding force over our volition and idiosyncrasy, but it's much more subtle that a "mind-control-like thing". Ideology is the way in which the world is presented to us.
You are not "indoctrinated into an ideology", and, being fair, there is no such a thing as a single coherent ideology. Instead, you are presented "ideological representations" of reality in the form of reified social relations. The commodity is an ideological object that we introduce in our daily lives. Gender is an ideological object securing the social reproduction of labour forces, capital and authority. The point is: social relations, power, modes of production... are all interwoven when it comes to our verily cognitive recognition of the world. We learn as long as we live, we live in the social world, the social world is mediated by ideological objects; therefore, we learn how to interpret the world through ideological representations. Also our conceptions about what "nature" and "objectivity" is are formulated upon an ideological basis.
Now let's transfer this thought to the interpretation of the modes of production under capitalism.
When studying the rise of capitalism, we often read that this new mode of production won over the Ancien Régime because of its "superior productivity" and "eficiency". This isn't accurate. "Eficiency" is a highly ideological category to evaluate a mode of production. Eficient for whom? Even "productivity" is not as objective as it may seem. Reading André Gorz, I found that, at the begining, there was not such as thing like a "higher production" of the manufacture over traditional craftmanship. What was really determinant for the success of manufactures was that the concentration of the work force allowed for a higher level of control and, therefore, higher levels of exploitation. That is to say, the history of manufacture and the factory is a history of the evolution of control over the worker. The higher "eficiency" of capitalism was the eficiency to maximize capital accumulation.
Since then, our technological innovation in the terrain of production has been developed under the conditions of capitalist exploitation. The higher levels of production are not a sign of the superior capacity of capitalism to generate new products and higher numbers of commodities; on the contrary, it is a sign of how capitalism colonized human creativity and innovation and forced us to imagine new technologies of production that need human submission to function. As Marx analyzed in his "Capital", the worker who loses knowledge over the production process is alienated and, instead of being a living user of its means of production, becomes themself into a dead compound of a great machine. The scientific knowledge of the process of production turns itself against the worker and serves as tool for the despotic authority of the capital.
We often think about technology and science as "neutral" and inoffensive by themselves, but this is an ideological representation. Yes, indeed, "technology" and "science" as abstract identities, understood the former as the ideation of tools and processes, and the former as the achievement of "true knowledge" of the world, are not a "capitalist" thing my themselves. BUT technology and science do not exist in a social vacuum, in reality they get realized under the social relations of capitalism and mediated by ideological forms and objects, thus, the products of "technological and scientific innovation" conform themselves to ideological forms, specially when it comes to their implementation to the production process.
Calm down, this post is not a "technology bad, return to monke" thing, all the contrary. What I want to express is that the valorative categories that we use in order to appraise the mode of production are moulded by capitalist representations of reality and, more important, that technological innovation under capitalism obeys to such a representation of reality. Capitalism "productive superiority" is a myth if we understand "productivity" as a measure for the fulfillment of our necessities. The only productive superiority of capitalism stands when it comes to the production of "commodities" as a social relation, which are an ideological representation of the economic production and is founded over the possibility of a market economy.
That's why an "intermediate state capitalism economy before the achievement of communism" like the one defended by many marxists is impossible, as they defend this intermediate stage as a method to the "development of the means of production". Such a development of the means of production would be an illusion, as the means or production that you will be developing would be the capitalist ones: the ones that maximize the reproduction of capital and capital accumulation. You would be appraising "eficiency" and "productivity" with the same measures as the capitalist, insofar as you conceive technology and technological innovation as a neutral thing.
The truth is that, under the conditions of an emancipated society, with an economy of free communities following their self-fulfillment, technology and the means of production would evolve following very different criteria. A specific technology that is "efficient" under certain material conditions may not be efficient when it is transferred to a different social context. The tecnology that is "efficient" under capitalism won't be efficient in communism.
I consider this as an argument against stage/transition authoritarian communism. We should strive for the anarchist prefiguration, here and now, of the society that we want to live in in the future. Only by following this project can we discover which technologies will be functional to our autonomy and our relation to the world.
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PROUD FLESH Inter/Views: Sylvia Wynter by Greg Thomas; Sylvia Wynter
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ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness, No. 4 (2006): Consciousness