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The discovery & rediscovery of metabolic rift
Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.
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Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype
Don’t believe the headlines: there’s much less happening than pro-fusion pundits claim.
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The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’
A key concept in Karl Marx’s Capital is widely misunderstood.
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Against enclosure: The commoners fight back
Articles in this series: Commons and classes before capitalism ‘Systematic theft of communal property’ Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class Against Enclosure: The Commoners Fight Back by Ian Angus In 1542, Henry VIII gave his friend and privy councilor Sir William Herbert a gift: the buildings and lands of a […]
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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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Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class
Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4
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Stories of resistance
Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world.
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Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.
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‘Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity’
World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’.
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200+ medical journals demand emergency climate action
Editors urge ‘fundamental changes to how our societies and economies are organized’.
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Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
“The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.” (Karl Marx)
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Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)
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Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media
A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.
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10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear
The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies. Nuclear doesn’t qualify.
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The fishing revolution
Centuries before the industrial revolution, the first factories transformed seafood production.
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The first cod war
How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire.
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Newfoundland = New found fish
While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.
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Commodity cod & factory ships
Beginning a series on the role of fishing in the birth and spread of capitalism, and the role of capitalism in today’s mass extinction of ocean life.
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Bidenfreude: COVID-19 in post-Trump U.S.
A jokester once characterized Yale University as a hedge fund with a campus attached to it. One might say something similar of the country in which Yale is based.
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Greenhouse gases set new record, despite COVID-19 lockdown
Top meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change.