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Dossier no. 48: We will build the future: a plan to save the planet
The most scandalous fact of the current period is that 2.37 billion people are struggling to eat. Most of them are in developing countries, but many are in advanced industrial states.
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Relevance of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in the 21st Century.
The death of communism has been pronounced time and time again, but every day it is still fought against without respite or pity. There is no popular act or uprising which the bourgeoise does not see as a sign of communism, no nationalist or progressive opinion which is not branded as communist.
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There is no Nobel Prize in economics
Let’s debunk a myth. There is no “Nobel Prize in Economics”. On Nov 27, 1895, when Alfred Nobel signed his will, he left five prizes in alphabetical order to: chemistry, literature, peace, physics, and physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize in Economics is declared after the Panchapandavas above.
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Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos
The unexpected may occur, within the quantum perspective assumed by the new cosmology: the current suffering due to the systemic crisis will not be in vain; it is accumulating benign energies that will make a leap to another, higher-order.
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Don’t look up reflects the cynicism of capitalist decay, for better and for worse
A lively debate has ensued over the merits of the film, Don’t Look Up. People on the progressive side of the political spectrum have praised the film for its piercing honesty about the climate crisis which is communicated through the metaphor of an incoming, planet-destroying comet.
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The triple day thesis: Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor
The triple day thesis of motherhood is conceptualized as a mother who engages in the reproductive work of childbearing and childrearing (the single day), in addition to waged work (the double day) and self-reproductive work (the triple day).
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Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today
In North America, the European colonization started during the 17th century, mainly led by England and France, before undergoing a rapid expansion during the 18thcentury, an era also marked by massive importation of African slaves
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The Production Gap report
Governments’ planned fossil fuel production remains dangerously out of sync with Paris Agreement limits.
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Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
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Warnings from the Far North
“Breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures” is horrific to contemplate.
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The Nobel Prize winner that predicted a crisis between nature and capital
Since 1901, December has been a time for Nobel Prizes. Only in 1969, as an afterthought, the Swedish Central Bank established the ‘Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel’—a decision that was met with protests by some members of the Nobel family.
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Cryptocurrencies: a view from the left
As cryptocurrencies take the world of finance by storm, Thomas Redshaw examines their rise and what the left should make of them.
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Inegalitarian growth or just degrowth: the IPCC has opened the debate
Twenty-five years ago, “degrowth” was conceived by its proponents as a “buzzword” carrying a vague ideological charge: Serge Latouche and his supporters said they wanted to “change the way people think” in order to “get out of the economy and development”… Today, degrowth is once again being debated, but on the basis of more rigorous premises.
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Climate litigation up in 2021, with private sector now exposed
This year’s successes include Shell becoming the first company in history to be held legally liable for contributing to climate change.
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Bourgeois Idealism & the Promotion of Anti-Intellectualism
I know already as I’m writing this piece that it’s not going to be a piece that’s widely read and/or shared. I know this because I’ve written a number of pieces that have been read and shared by thousands.
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‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong
Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.
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They won’t ever find us because our love is bound to the rocks: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2021)
At the U.S. State Department’s Summit for Democracy (9–10 December), U.S. President Joe Biden announced a range of initiatives to ‘bolster democracy and defend human rights globally’.
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Red Star Over the Third World w/ Vijay Prashad: Lessons of Soviet History, Part 2
Russia’s October Revolution in 1917 and the rise of Soviet power reverberated across the world, from Latin America to Africa to Asia, and Middle East – that part of the world that lived under the ravages of colonialism and under-development.
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World inequality
The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years. That’s according to the World Inequality Report 2022.
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Ten Marxist classics for Xmas
Lindsey German’s Marxist holiday reading list