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Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto was published in February, 1848. It is truly a part of what Marx called world literature that capitalism has given rise to. The Manifesto is a call to revolutionary action. It is important to return to the text now when a large number of people around the world […]
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Social Media and the war of positions
The collections of ideas we hold are historically conditioned by the mode of life we exist in.
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Cops are asking to kill people with robots. What could go wrong?
The U.S. military has been killing people with robots for decades now, and the nation’s local police now seem eager to get in on the action.
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Samir Amin: September 3, 1931-August 12, 2018
“Increased awareness will not happen through successive adaptations to the requirements of capitalist accumulation, but through awareness of the necessity of breaking with those requirements.” —Samir Amin