February 20, 2024
Were the original rifts within the French left in Henri Lefebvre's and Louis Althusser's time, so genuine and lasting that these two figures could not themselves have overcome them?
February 20, 2024
It involves a lot of math. And people are averse to math. And it involves thinking about something that’s unpleasant— getting old. So people are kind of in denial. They just sort of let it ride. Let it go. Let it go....
February 20, 2024
...Stalin asked, "So you think my truth needs improvement?"
"The truth," Radek replied, "can’t be improved. The truth is true, or it is not. But a line of evidence can gain a great deal by new and better evidence..."
February 20, 2024
...might offer, even further, one route out of the disciplinary cul de sac that is ‘economics’ strictu sensu when it comes to an analysis of capitalism as a historically specific economic form and mode of social reproduction....
February 20, 2024
Patnaik and Patnaik unpick the realities of capitalism: First, as thriving on exogenous rather than endogenous stimuli––namely colonialism followed by state intervention after the Second World War––thus negating its capacity to be self-contained and perpetual; and second, leading to high unemployment through deindustrialization and land grabs for export crops and property accumulation which push petty producers and peasants into joblessness.
February 20, 2024
The widespread shortfall in retirement income is the result of a bipartisan effort going back decades to move our savings away from traditional pensions to accounts like 401(k)s that enrich the financial services industry at our expense.
February 20, 2024
March is the month to dig in to Mészáros. Join "Essential Discussions" with Irv Kurki, or The Marxist Education Project's "Capital Studies Group" respectively focusing on 'Beyond Leviathan' and 'The Necessity of Social Control.'
February 20, 2024
...examining shards of slave property, waterways, mills, and vessels for storing water....
February 20, 2024
With Germany pledging to re-arm, we also witness the shortsightedness of world imperialism, which refuses to learn the lessons of the 20th century, especially the catastrophe of world war ending with the uncovering of industrial funeral pyres in 1945. Not only Washington but London, Brussels and Paris should be shuddering right now....
February 20, 2024
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled "MR Classics," starting with Kwame Nkrumah's thought, the philosophy he called 'Consciencism." We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire.
