A key concept in Karl Marx’s Capital is widely misunderstood.

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Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.

Deprived of land and common rights, the English poor were forced into wage-labor. CAPITAL VERSUS COMMONS, 4

Fighting back against extractivism, false solutions, and social and climate abuse around the world.

How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.

World Health Organization urges ‘rapid and ambitious action to halt and reverse the climate crisis’.

Editors urge ‘fundamental changes to how our societies and economies are organized’.

“The expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production.” (Karl Marx)

“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil.” (Karl Marx)

A Q&A on capitalism, media, and climate.

The world needs safe, non-exploitive technologies. Nuclear doesn’t qualify.

Centuries before the industrial revolution, the first factories transformed seafood production.

How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire.

While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic.

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.

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.

Top meteorologist: only a complete transformation of our industrial, energy and transport systems can stop climate change.

John Bellamy Foster’s brilliant recovery of a century of ecological and socialist thought will inform, enable, and inspire a new generation of reds and greens.

Since 1987 the ocean has warmed 4.5 times as fast as in the previous three decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that even if emissions are substantially reduced, by 2100 the ocean will heat 2 to 4 times as much as it has since 1970–and if emissions are not cut, it will heat 5 to 7 times as much.