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  • | Oppressed colonial nations shall rise up against Imperialism under the banner of the Proletarian Revolution Bolshevik poster | MR Online

    “A Question of Land and Existence”: An Introduction to Marx’s Anti-colonialism

    Originally published: The Public Autonomy Project on April 13, 2020 by Steve D'Arcy (more by The Public Autonomy Project) (Posted Jun 13, 2020)

    Although a thorough assessment of Marx’s anti-colonial politics would have to devote substantial critical attention to its many limitations, my emphasis here is not on these limitations, but rather on aspects of Marx’s anti-colonialism that remain relevant, illuminating, and worthy of serious consideration today.

  • | Boots Rileys masterpiece of socialist cinema Sorry to Bother You may be the most selfconsciously marxist film ever made It is an exhortation to rebel but to do so with our eyes open with sober senses so we dont replicate uncritically the logics that we aspire to contest | MR Online

    Could this be the most Marxist film ever made?

    Originally published: The Public Autonomy Project on May 8, 2019 by Steve Darcy (more by The Public Autonomy Project) (Posted May 13, 2019)

    Can a film be true? More to the point, can a film about capitalism avoid being recuperated by the system as just another commodity to make money for the culture-industry? Predictably, Riley sides with Marx, who said: “The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question…. Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.”

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  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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