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Hitting the mark: “Grand Theft Capital”, by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster

Hitting the mark: “Grand Theft Capital”, by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster

November 2, 2026

The latest, in The Guardian (and read on for the Adam Smith Institute's miffed response): "As the radical economists Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster show in their new book, Grand Theft Capital: What Workers Should Know About the Affordability Crisis, the share of national income going to ordinary workers has slumped from 30% in the 1960s to 20% today. This is the destruction of working-class lives and dreams in which Republicans and Democrats colluded. This is the American carnage that in 2016 helped propel Trump into the White House."
In Chicago in November? August Nimtz’ “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”

In Chicago in November? August Nimtz’ “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”

October 30, 2026

The latest, an interview by Constantin Berlin, for Jacobin: "The recently published collection, 'Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique,' makes accessible, for the first time, a critique that spans four decades and addresses Robinson’s claims and those made by his followers by putting forth an authentic Marxism as the most reliable method for human liberation in the real world and explaining why it remains the guiding principle for the transracial class struggle today...."
In Amsterdam in November? Join Chris dePloeg, Jason Hickel and more, LIVE, for “The Exterminating Empire”

In Amsterdam in November? Join Chris dePloeg, Jason Hickel and more, LIVE, for “The Exterminating Empire”

October 29, 2026

Will you be in Amsterdam on November 23rd? Head to the social center known as Pakuis de Zwijger for a lively and engaging event with Chris dePloeg together with renowned climate author Jason Hickel (in person), frontline Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah (joining online) and moderator, climate justice activist and researcher Harriët Bergman. There will also be cultural performances from Chihiro Geuzebroek and brothers Chris and Max de Ploeg, tying their ancestral struggles in Bolivia and Armenia to the global struggle for liberation.
The latest on Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

The latest on Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

October 16, 2026

The latest: "...social democratic outlets such as Jacobin (18 April 2026) have reduced Rockhill’s analysis to a crude and simplistic narrative: that the CIA simply paid off these academics and effectively invented various opportunist trends. Detractors of Rockhill’s work have also disingenuously presented this caricature as Rockhill’s actual analysis...."
Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”

Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”

September 8, 2026

Featured review: "Severed Universal Metabolism and Predatory Logic: Groundwork for an Ecosocialist Critique of Capitalism" by Varun Wigmal (INSEE Journal); "The bulk of the book is an attempt to explain the core concepts of ecological Marxism and political ecology by detailing the metabolic processes vital to Earth’s systems. In Chapter 10, Angus discusses the carbon cycle’s breakdown—which is driving climate change—and in Chapter 11, he describes how industrial agriculture is pumping nitrogen into Earth’s systems faster than any natural process through fertilizers, disrupting the nitrogen cycle. Angus proposes a radical reduction in the use of nitrogen and chemical fertilizers as a solution to environmental damage, and envisions a time when it will be possible to feed people without them. These chapters are the strength of Angus’ book. They demonstrate how Marxists should use science to understand the complexity of the damage inflicted by capitalism on the Earth’s systems and develop viable solutions based on the idea of hope without optimism, i.e., confronting adversity rather than denying it

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