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  • | The discovery rediscovery of metabolic rift Speaker Ian Angus | MR Online

    The discovery & rediscovery of metabolic rift

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 2019 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    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.

  • | nuclear fusion | MR Online

    Practical nuclear fusion is still just hype

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 2, 2023 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    Don’t believe the headlines: there’s much less happening than pro-fusion pundits claim.

  • | So called Primitive Accumulation | MR Online

    The meaning of ‘So-called Primitive Accumulation’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 5, 2022 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | Locals break into Richmond Park to Beat the Bounds 1751 | MR Online

    Against enclosure: The commoners fight back

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 15, 2022 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    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 […]

  • | The Dawn of Everything gets human history wrong | MR Online

    ‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 17, 2021 by Chris Knight, Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2021)

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

  • | Building and clothmaking were among the largest industrial occupations in the 17th century | MR Online

    Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 12, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson editors CLIMATE JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL Resistance and Grassroots Solutions Routledge 2020 | MR Online

    Stories of resistance

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on December 7, 2021 by Bob Spivey (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Dec 11, 2021)

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

  • | A 16th Century printing press Commonwealth views were widely disseminated in books pamphlets and broadsides | MR Online

    Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 21, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity | MR Online

    ‘Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on October 12, 2021 by World Health Organization (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | 200+ medical journals demand emergency climate action | MR Online

    200+ medical journals demand emergency climate action

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on September 7, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | Tenants harvest the landlords grain | MR Online

    Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on August 30, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | Harvesting grain in the 1400s | MR Online

    Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on August 1, 2021 (more by Climate & 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)

  • | A QA on capitalism media and climate | MR Online

    Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on July 20, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Jul 26, 2021)

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

  • | 10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear | MR Online

    10 reasons why climate activists should not support nuclear

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on June 23, 2021 by Simon Butler (more by Climate & Capitalism)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2021)

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

  • | Processing cod in a 16th Century Newfoundland Fishing Room | MR Online

    The fishing revolution

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on May 13, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | The Spanish Armada off the English Coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen ca 1620 | MR Online

    The first cod war

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on April 5, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | In the sixteenth and partly still in the seventeenth the sudden expansion of trade and the creation of a new world market had an overwhelming influence on the defeat of the old mode of production and the rise of the capitalist mode Karl Marx1 | MR Online

    Newfoundland = New found fish

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on March 8, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

  • | A trawler reeling in a fishing net containig hunderds of thousands of cod fish an example of overfishing Photo Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Commodity cod & factory ships

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on February 3, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    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.

  • | Trump Obama and Biden | MR Online

    Bidenfreude: COVID-19 in post-Trump U.S.

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on January 16, 2021 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

    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.

  • | the Keeling Curve | MR Online

    Greenhouse gases set new record, despite COVID-19 lockdown

    Originally published: Climate & Capitalism on November 23, 2020 (more by Climate & Capitalism)  |

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

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    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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    The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social problems by militaristic interventions, on any scale, are obvious enough. If, however, we look more closely at the historical trend of militaristic adventures, it becomes frighteningly clear that they show an ever greater intensification and an ever-increasing scale, from local confrontations to […]

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