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The life of a great Marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022)
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.
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What’s the use of Marx’s ‘Capital’?
Marx played many roles in his life: activist, journalist, historian, philosopher and also an economist. The crowning achievement of his efforts in economics was the three volumes of Capital.
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In praise of “Whataboutism”
The word “whataboutism” is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden.
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2022 begins with the environment crying for help
Heat waves, floods and prolonged droughts show how climate change is already present; Check the interview with Marcio Astrini, Executive Secretary of the Climate Observatory.
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Impacts of warming faster and more severe than expected says IPCC
Ecosystems everywhere are altered by climate change. For some of them, the limits of adaptation are exceeded (especially in polar and equatorial regions) – they will not be able to regenerate naturally.
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National Endowment for Democracy deletes records of funding projects in Ukraine
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
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What is the Fetishism of Commodities?
Towards the end of the first chapter of Das Kapital, after having established the validity of the labor theory of value, Marx has a section on the “Fetishism of Commodities”.
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“Let them kill as many as possible”- United States Policy Toward Russia and its Neighbors
In April 1941, four years before he was to become President and eight months before the United States entered World War II, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri reacted to the news that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”
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The unknown paths of the late Marx
An interview with Marcello Musto about the last decade of Marx’s life.
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It’s different, they’re White: Media ignore conflicts around the World to focus on Ukraine
A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and none at all on the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
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Imperialism as an abiding phenomenon
The essence of the relationship of imperialism lies in the control over the world’s resources, including land-use, by the metropolitan powers.
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Scientists issue ‘dire warning’ on climate
‘A brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable future’
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Every U.S. enemy Is Hitler: Notes from the Edge of The Narrative Matrix
It’s just incredible how even after all this time, after all those wars, after all those lies, it’s not even occurring to most mainstream westerners to investigate whether the U.S. could possibly have had anything to do with starting the war in Ukraine.
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We’re Europeans, Christians, Whites!
“It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed”
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NATO and Africa: A relationship of colonial violence and structural White supremacy
NATO is the means of continuing colonial aggressions against African countries.
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The wealth of nations
Marx’s first sentence in Capital Volume One is: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an “immense accumulation of commodities”, its unit being a single commodity.” (Moore and Aveling translation).
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Engaging Federici on Marx, Capitalism, and Social Reproduction
The discussion of Marx is embedded in Federici’s signature critique of the social reproduction of labor power in capitalist societies.
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Don’t believe the hype, big finance continues to threaten our survival
According to defenders of the status quo, the best response to our most serious problems is to let markets work their magic; government regulation of private business activity only makes things worse.
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MANN OVERBOARD – Review of Michael Mann’s ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’
Michael Mann is one of the world’s leading climate scientists, who has played a pivotal role in establishing what is happening to our climate and the forces driving that change.
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Financialization at heart of economic malaise
COVID-19 has exposed major long-term economic vulnerabilities. This malaise–including declining productivity growth–can be traced to the greater influence of finance in the real economy.