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“A Materialist Guide to Media Literacy”
In exploring the notion of critical media literacy, the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony provide an essential framework for understanding the complex dynamics of media, power, and ideology.
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“The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence” – book review
Pasquinelli’s “Eye of the Master” provides a materialist analysis of AI and technology, which Kevin Crane finds to be an excellent antidote to all the nonsense and hype spouted about AI.
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The theoretical significance of Lenin’s “Imperialism”
The theoretical position informing “Imperialism” extended Marxism in at least five major ways.
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So you’re a professor? Here’s what you can do to oppose genocide
Feeling helpless does not mean being useless. It is possible to support Palestinians from afar.
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‘Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth’
The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit.
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An Eco-Revolutionary Tipping Point?
Global warming, the two climate denials, and the environmental proletariat.
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Wealth of five richest men doubles since 2020 as five billion people made poorer in “decade of division,” says Oxfam
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020–at a rate of $14 million per hour– while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power.
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Plastic pollution caused $249 billion in U.S. health care costs in 2018, finds study
Chemicals leaching from plastics are leaving Americans notably sicker and poorer, according to a new study found.
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The climate charade continues
With fossil-fuel interests now openly and repeatedly in charge of Cop summits, their failure of legitimacy must be confronted, argues John Clarke.
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Fake intellectuals working for Think Tanks funded by the Arms Industry are driving support for war after war after war
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Now Iran.
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What does ‘rules-based International Order’ mean when U.S. can bomb Yemen at will?
What U.S. foreign policy shamelessly amounts to is this: “We make the rules so we get to break the rules.”
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We need to reverse the culture of decay and march on the street for a culture of humanity
The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness.
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Corporate media fed COP 28 carbon capture confusion
The conference, held in Dubai, capital of the oil-dependent United Arab Emirates, reeked of almost comedic irony.
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Paul Burkett, rest in power
In memory of Paul Burkett, Marxist scholar and jazz musician, 1956-2024.
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U.S. claims huge portion of the ocean floor, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic
In an underreported but hugely important development, the United States is now claiming a vast portion of the ocean floor, twice the size of California.
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Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development
With global capitalism’s worsening poverty and environmental crises, sustainable human development comes to the fore as the primary question that must be engaged by all twenty-first century socialists in core and periphery alike. It is in this human developmental connection, I will argue, that Marx’s vision of communism or socialism (two terms that he used interchangeably) can be most helpful.
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Introduction to the Brazilian edition of ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
Important steps towards formally defining a new epoch in Earth System history.
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‘She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World’ – book review
This valuable collection of pieces explores the role of women in twentieth-century revolutionary and national-liberation movements throughout the world, finds Ellen Graubart.
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Gramsci’s animality
Prison Notebooks sets the tone with “Animality and Industrialism,” Gramsci’s original work-in-progress header for the section he’d eventually label “Americanism and Fordism.”
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Thirty years of failure on climate: How did it come to this?
It’s more than 50 years since scientists first came to understand that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities could be drivers of a potentially catastrophic warming of the world’s climate.