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Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature
Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.
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“Dealin with the Devil”: musicians confront Joe Manchin at Kennedy Center concert
Senator Joe Manchin has emerged in recent weeks as the leading opponent of vital social programs to provide relief to working people in the areas of education, healthcare, the environment and much more.
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Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism
Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.
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Neoliberalism and the crisis of higher education
Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology of this historical moment. It includes a belief in the following: the efficiency of the free market and the deregulation and privatization of the public sector that markets require; tax reduction; abandoning the welfare state; and replacing the notion of the public good with a personal responsibility for one’s own welfare.
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Review: The Alienation of Love
More than just bear it, capitalists today demand we love our exploitation. Sara Bennett reviews a new book on the new emotional demands on workers, arguing it aid us in our understanding of modern class relations.
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Against Enclosure: The Commonwealth Men
How 16th century reformers fought privatization of land and capitalist agriculture.
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Coming Climate Summit must take due care of the woes of developing Countries
Discussions in the forthcoming COP26 should focus on democratisation of climate finance that enables procedural climate justice.
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A Discussion with John Bellamy Foster – Presenting the 2021 transform! yearbook
A discussion with John Bellamy Foster, one of the world’s leading figures in Marxian ecological theory.
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Central Asia’s neoliberal tragedy
Resilience cannot be restored without public spending, but the rentier business plan is to minimize taxes by shrinking the government, especially by privatizing its public utilities and other functions to create opportunities for charging monopoly rents, and to oppose taxation of economic rent.
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Mike Healy: ‘Marx and Digital Machines: Alienation, Technology, Capitalism’
Healy’s exquisite book applies several recent frameworks of alienation to two groups of workers–IT workers and academics.
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How capitalism shackles the fight against climate change
Journalists from the U.S. and Europe have warned that the summer of 2021 should be a wakeup call on climate catastrophe. Rightfully so.
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Where did the dependency approach go?
Many commentators and academics interested in African development have in recent decades shown a disinclination or disdain towards incorporating ‘global capitalism’ into their analyses of countries of the continent.
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Cryptocurrency: a new and dangerous climate disruptor
The get-rich-quick scheme, banned in China and elsewhere, is invading U.S. communities unchecked, posing as an “equalizing, democratizing” currency. It’s not.
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How the “debt ceiling” has been turned into a weapon against workers
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the country is now just weeks away from hitting the debt ceiling.
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Wholesale fertilizer prices expected to continue rising on lower production, higher prices
September proved to be a month of unprecedented firmness in fertilizer prices, bringing strong trends of the previous year to another level entirely.
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U.S. Covid death toll hits 700,000: A massacre by the capitalist system
The United States marked a grim milestone Oct. 1 as the 700,000th death from COVID-19 was officially registered. Since January of 2020 the United States has also counted over 43 million cases, the most of any country on the planet for both deaths and infections.
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Finance capital and the World Economy
THE period of neo-liberalism witnesses an increase in the share of economic surplus in total output both in individual countries and also for the world as a whole.
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What is imperialism?
Towards the common objectives of anti-imperialist struggle.
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Does capitalism make us crazy?
Life under capitalist rule is perilous. We can’t survive on our own, and we can’t rely on society to support us.
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Teaching politically and the problem of Afropessimism
As teachers, we’re tasked with educating our students, students who are increasingly, like their teachers, becoming politically conscious and called to act. Yet the dominant political theories and forms of action are inadequate for real revolutionary transformation.