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  • | Capital | MR Online

    The People of the Book

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on February 14, 2018 by Martin Thomas (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted Mar 17, 2022)

    By “People of the Book” it meant principally Jews and Christians. These book-based religions were an intellectual innovation. The book-basis gave Christianity and Islam an expansive power and a cultural breadth that earlier religions had not had.

  • | Crimean War | MR Online

    Crimean War wasn’t “collective security”

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on March 8, 2022 by Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL) (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted Mar 15, 2022)

    Eric Lee’s latest column (2 March) contains the occasionally repeated claim that Marx supported the Anglo-French forces in the Crimean War (1853-6).

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    The coral atoll and the iPhone

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on October 19, 2021 by Stuart Jordan (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted Oct 26, 2021)

    I think Matt Cooper takes a too narrow definition of “metabolism” as a rather dull process of material exchange that occurs within a cell. From my reading, as a non-specialist, Marx was using the term in a broader sense as the material and ultimately purposeless means by which complex order emerges from disordered matter.

  • | Kohei Saito Karl Marxs Ecosocialism | MR Online

    ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy’ (2017)

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    This guide is designed to help understand the central ideas in Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy. New York: Monthly Review, (2017)

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    The universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.

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  • The Puzzle of Financialization
    Harry Magdoff | Monthly Review Volume 45 Number 5 October 1993 | MR Online

    In this reprise from October 1993, Henry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy ask: “Isn’t there anyone around here who understands how this capitalist system works?”

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