#marxism — Public Fediverse posts
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“The Horizon: Barbarism or the Leap Beyond Value”
by Fabio Vighi in Savage Minds on Substack
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@thetimes“We are entering an era of severe currency crises, capital controls, and the weaponisation of the legal infrastructure to execute the final looting of the public and private citizen alike. The legal and financial architecture is being re-engineered behind the scenes. Under the guise of securing ‘systemic stability,’ the collateral of ordinary individuals, pension funds, and public assets is being positioned to be absorbed by the clearing houses of the financial elite when the debt and derivative bubbles burst. This is the logical endpoint of a system that has moved from the ‘too big to fail’ bailouts to architectural re-engineering”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/the-horizon
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Om två timmar startar Studiecirkel Karl Marx Kapitalet, volym tre i Stockholm!
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https://www.gnistor.se/event/2026-09-07-studiecirkel-karl-marx-kapitalet/ -
Deux planchers ontiques, deux mondes de sens
L’incompréhension entre communautés sans État et centres capitalistes ne tient pas seulement à des intérêts opposés, mais à des planchers ontico-sociaux différents : commun comme forme de vie d’un côté, individualisme concurrentiel de l’autre. Lorsque la verticalité historique devient l’horizon naturel de l’être, l’idéologie totale est accomplie. #Ontology #Anthropology #Marxism #Mannheim #Commons #Capitalism #Coloniality…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/deux-planchers-ontiques-deux-mondes-de-sens/
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Le commun avant l’incitation
Une enquête peut donner la parole aux acteurs tout en leur imposant les catégories du chercheur. Chez les Hadza, la réciprocité arrive en tête des motivations déclarées du partage ; mais cela suffit-il à prouver que le partage est un échange entre individus plutôt qu’une norme constitutive du commun ? #Anthropology #Commons #HunterGatherers #EconomicAnthropology #Marxism #PoliticalPhilosophy #CriticalTheory…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/le-commun-avant-lincitation/
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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
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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. -
CW: Marxism learnings
🔹 Context: industrial revolution. Mechanisation in agriculture meant less workers were necessary on the field, so people go to the city to find a job. This leads to exploitable workers, low wages, dangerous conditions.
🔹 Marxism is a scientific method. (I didn't know that.)
🔹 "Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it." Now finally a philosophical point of view I can agree with.
🔹 Hegel: ideas and understanding are the motor of change in the world.
Marx: no, material conditions are. You need to change the material conditions of people in order to change your understanding of the world.
This is "materialism" (Marx) as opposed to "idealism" (Hegel).🔹 For example: individual wage labour creates individualism, whereas villages create solidarity, because people have specialisms. If the baker is ill, no one in the village has bread. In a factory, workers compete for wages.
#marxism #Hegel #Marx #materialism #idealism #individualism #solidarity
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Evald Ilyenkov: Creative Marxism and Mid-Century Soviet Philosophy
Finley Farrell examines Evald Ilyenkov’s "Creative Soviet Marxism," which challenged rigid "diamat" orthodoxy. Ilyenkov posited that consciousness stems from human activity rather than simple material reflection. His theories critiqued biological determinism in the division of labour and navigated Lenin's complex symbolic role. -
@jlou This is why private property of all kinds is theft, renting capital that is the product of your own labour as either an individual or a group replicates exactly the problematic part of capitalism: the assumption of ownership over a porition of someone elses labour because you lay claim to the capital. Have you read any Proudhon? Also money is bad because it makes capital accumulation inevitable, but thats maybe a different topic "The horror is the firm not the fact the firm has a boss"
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"Over 100,000 people have filled the streets of the Bulgarian capital in mass youth-led demonstrations against the rotten, mafia-rule regime. Whilst the protests were initially triggered by the 2026 draft budget – which the government quickly withdrew on 2 December – the protests did not stop. Instead, they gained momentum and forced the government to resign just nine days later!"
https://marxist.com/gen-z-led-protests-force-government-collapse-in-bulgaria.htm
#bulgaria #protest #massProtest #massprotestsinbulgaria #marxism #socialism
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We were entirely cool to replace millions of people with hammers
with industralised assembly lines and automated tools.And when I say "we", I mean the bourgeoise upper and middle classes.
Now the just desserts of automation come for intellectual work, and the proletariat is outsourced to third world, the intellectuals lose their shit.
The #capitalists come for your job, and there is no one to defend you.Spicy take?
Sure.
Posting on socials about how bad #AI is, ain't changing nothing.
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"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?"
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mike-davis-marxism-capitalism-dystopia
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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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Patrice Lumumba on the real history to be told
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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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I'm not a Trotskyist. That's why I can assess this subject clearly 😁
Mai 68 proved Trotsky right.
At the very least regarding his criticism of Stalinist bureaucratism and his position that, in times of crisis, the revolutionary creativity and consciousness of the masses outstrips and moves faster than that of official parties.
Fight me, bitches 🙃
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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.
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#ClimateChange #geoengineering #Marxism #degrowth #GreenCapitalism #TerminationShock #NealStephenson
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"All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers" | Mao Zedong Talks with Anna Louise Strong (1946)
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https://jacobin.com/2025/01/video-game-workers-unions-layoffs/
#socialism #communism #marxism #TradeUnionism #union #unions #Jacobin
Some excellent bits of advice and observations for anyone considering organizing tech workers here.
>Emma Kinema:
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>Quality assurance testers are the natural vanguard of the labor movement in the video game industry, at least in North America. However, they are treated like second-class citizens with lower pay, poor job stability, and stagnant career opportunities. **The discontent around these conditions provides the fuel for organizing**.
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>As a former QA tester myself, I can attest to these conditions, and I have known far too many people making near minimum wage with years of experience under their belt. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment, and it makes sense that QA workers would be the first to organize in a major way in AAA video game development — as we have seen with other QA testers and CWA members at ZeniMax, Sega, and Activision. When we organized the World of Warcraft team, **it was essential to us that QA testers organized in the same unit as the rest of the development team** as a way to mend the two-tier rift that stands between QA and their fellow developers.
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>Although QA is seen and treated as a weak and insignificant segment of workers, I believe **QA has some of the greatest structural power in the entire video game development pipeline**. If QA walks out on the job right before a major product launch, the entire project shuts down and it affects all other disciplines.
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>Em Geiger:
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>The vast majority of Sega’s unit was QA testers. Without QA, this company and our video games would not survive, **so we have power in that regard when you realize how easy our struggle makes it to talk to others and eventually organize**. We have the most reason to unionize out of everybody.Tech workers, find whatever your equivalent of a QA department is, and join forces with them **under a single organizing unit**.
Also nice to see that Em Geiger is looking beyond unionization and towards total emancipation, as Marx recognized was necessary more than a century ago:
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>All these visions for the future have made me think that it is going to take a massive restructuring of how we do business as a country. **But the more unions we nurse into existence, the closer we can get to ideal solidarity**.
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>As a country, our work culture is very focused on the individual. Capitalism is a cancer; it is delusional to believe that it is a sustainable economic framework where the individual is the focus and subject of space. If we can level the playing field, we can get to a point where the focus is everyone inside a collective, and the focus of working toward the interest of others becomes a paradigm shift in our culture. **By nurturing unions, we get closer to prosocial behavior and a community-minded approach to how to navigate not just the workplace but our personal lives as well**. -
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#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
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To the tune of "move! that! car!": "read! this! book!"
Check out my review: "Fuck “Sustainable Development Goals,” have y’all ever heard of Communism?: Reviewing Kōhei Saitō’s Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto" on my blog!
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#MarxistMonday IMHO #Detroit-based #AgainstTheCurrent is one of our finest contemporary left political journals, published by #SolidarityUSA, "a socialist, feminist and anti-racist organization" founded in 1986. Well-researched, well-written and thoughtful perspectives on current and historical events. Affordable subscriptions, too. Well worth reading! #Marxism #Socialism #Journalism #Politics #USPol #CurrentEvents #FrantzFanon #Histodon https://againstthecurrent.org/atc230/frantz-fanon-and-the-paradox-of-anticolonial-violence/
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New introduction since I've switched to @socialism.social. My name is Max. I'm a #DSA and #CPUSA member from #Wisconsin!
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#FutureHistories #Podcast S02E33 - Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination
#PatDevine, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Planning, #Sozialismus, #Socialism, #Democracy, #Demokratie, #SocialistDemocracy, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #Cooperation, #Decisionmaking, #Participation, #Capitalism, #Kapitalismus, #Postcapitalism, #ParticipatoryEconomics, #NegociatedCoordination, #Socialownership, #SelfgoverningSociety, #ScienceandSociety, #RobinHahnel, #DavidLaibman, #Marxism, #MarxistEconomics
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S02E21 - Robin Hahnel on Parecon
Participatory Economics (Parecon) – developed by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel – is one of the most popular models for democratic economic planning.
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https://archive.org/details/ghanarevolution
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James
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#KwameNkrumah, #Ghana, #goldcoast, #revolution, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #PanAfricanism, #GeorgePadmore, #urbanization, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #proletarianization, #decolonization, #anticolonialism, #PanAfricanism, #marxism, #leninism, #socialismA collection of essays written over a span of two decades.