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  • | Replying on ecology and entropy | MR Online

    Replying on ecology and entropy

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on May 31, 2023 by Stuart Jordan (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted Jun 05, 2023)

    Stuart Jordan responds to criticism of his article on ecology and entropy in Solidarity 672

  • | Discussing ecology and entropy | MR Online

    Discussing ecology and entropy

    Originally published: Workers’s Liberty on May 17, 2023 by Stuart Jordan (more by Workers’s Liberty) (Posted May 20, 2023)

    Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month they discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from ‘Marxism and Ecological Economics’ by Paul Burkett.

  • | 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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    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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