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  • | Refugees crossing Mediterranean Sea | MR Online

    Marxist anthropology in a world of surplus population

    Originally published: Focaal Blog on January 26, 2022 by Matan Kaminer (more by Focaal Blog) (Posted Apr 29, 2022)

    Anthropologists, who have always been curious about the lives of people outside Europe and outside wage-labor, have good reason to be interested in the concept of the surplus population.

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    Scoring the U.S. working class: expropriation and digitalization

    Originally published: Focaal Blog on March 28, 2022 by Don Nonini (more by Focaal Blog) (Posted Apr 18, 2022)

    Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point–whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to shift toward a new militancy toward capitalism.

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    Remarks on recent events in the Ukraine: An Interim Statement

    Originally published: Focaal Blog on February 25, 2022 (more by Focaal Blog)

    The outbreak of full-fledged war with the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a deep turning point in the world order.  As such it cannot be ignored by the geographers assembled (alas by zoom) at our annual meeting, I therefore offer some non-expert comments as a basis for discussion.

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    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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