Geography Archives: Global

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science.

Certain features associated with neo-fascism have manifested themselves quite clearly during its ascendancy in India.

How to Make Revolution Liveable.

A Leftist Reading of the Palantir Technologies Manifesto.

The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?

Why the social brain of humanity is capitalism’s next enclosure

The planet, our democracy, our courts…

This is the fourth entry in the Marx in Moments series.

California now has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s.

The illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences that reach far beyond the region.

The Jevons Paradox, Marx, the Modern Left, Deep Greens, AI and Collapse.

Engels’ essay on our origins and distinctiveness built on Darwin’s own exploration of human evolution and has provided a framework for exploration and research which has stood the test of time, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

“Capitalism has now singled out a handful (less than one-tenth of the inhabitants of the globe; less than one-fifth at a most “generous” and liberal calculation) of exceptionally rich and powerful states which plunder the whole world simply by “clipping coupons.””

It is news media’s responsibility to reflect reality and to address the concerns of the communities they serve, regardless of the priorities of the administration in power. Failing to mention climate change where it is relevant will not stop it from occurring, but inattention will surely make it worse.

On social contract theory, economic power, and the limits of liberal democratic governance.

Markets are trying to keep the simulation going a little longer, but they cannot. The old is dying and the new, now, can be born.

The idea of the “creative worker” disguises the fact that all workers are creative-and promotes self-exploitation.

A curious feature of capitalism is that it masks the social nature of its form of production, making it appear as if the commodities produced by “the aggregate labour of society” were actually produced “naturally”, autonomously, of their “own accord”, especially when they are encountered as finished products in the market to be bought and consumed (Capital, Volume 1, 165).

Toward critical consciousness and the development of revolutionary capacity.

With the AI “revolution” coming for our jobs, our creativity, our politics, our environment, and just about anything else you’d care to think of, it is heartening to see an emerging critique of the shameless boosterism characteristic of so much discussion of the technology.