Subjects Archives: Capitalism

The planet, our democracy, our courts…

California now has about 550 more fire-friendly hours a year than it did in the 1970s.

The Sahel’s future will not be secured by border walls, bases, or markets, but by confronting the capitalist and imperialist structures that convert climate stress into dispossession and war.

Clara McCormack assesses the nature of the fuel protests that brought the country to a standstill for a week, arguing that we need to broaden the protests into a wider fight on the cost-of-living crisis.

“Capitalism has now singled out a handful (less than one-tenth of the inhabitants of the globe; less than one-fifth at a most “generous” and liberal calculation) of exceptionally rich and powerful states which plunder the whole world simply by “clipping coupons.””

It is news media’s responsibility to reflect reality and to address the concerns of the communities they serve, regardless of the priorities of the administration in power. Failing to mention climate change where it is relevant will not stop it from occurring, but inattention will surely make it worse.

On social contract theory, economic power, and the limits of liberal democratic governance.

A curious feature of capitalism is that it masks the social nature of its form of production, making it appear as if the commodities produced by “the aggregate labour of society” were actually produced “naturally”, autonomously, of their “own accord”, especially when they are encountered as finished products in the market to be bought and consumed (Capital, Volume 1, 165).

Trump Is Not the Problem—the System That Produced Him Is.

Ian Angus was interviewed by noted Marxist economist Michael Roberts about Angus’s new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

As Rosenblum writes, an average of 1,000 people were moving to Seattle every week during the city’s tech boom, and developers and big landlords took advantage of this boom by raising rents and gentrifying previously affordable neighborhoods.

U.S. Donald Trump’s proposed budget ramps up military spending amid the war on Iran while slashing domestic programs, raising concerns over economic priorities and public backlash.

China’s high level of investment is simply the latest stage of an international process of economic development that has been underway for over two centuries.

In a context defined by extreme scarcity, intensified blockade pressure, and deep structural constraints, Cuba insists that the people must remain protagonists of the country’s political policy making and economic reconstruction.

“We understood that producing green coffee was not enough. The only solution was to advance toward control over the entire production process.”

At stake is U.S. capacity to use global finance as a weapon of war.

Since the beneficiaries of the oil price rise will be immediately holding their windfall profits quite substantially as bank deposits that create no direct demand for goods and services, while the losers from inflation will have to curtail their total demand for goods and services in real terms, such an inflation will have a depressing effect on the level of world aggregate demand, and hence will cause a recession in the world economy.

Modern environmental crises are not accidental byproducts of economic activity but expressions of a structural contradiction embedded within capitalism’s organization.

The Trump Administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy represents a radical change from prior NSS documents. Its main thrusts are both racist and imperialist. It focuses on white ethnonationalism and anti-migration policies, its aspirations in the Western Hemisphere, capitalist economic relationships, and resource imperialism.

THE very concept of sovereignty of third world nations is now being sought to be abolished by imperialism in violation of all canons of international law, as is evident from the bombing of Iran by U.S. and Israel with the explicit objective of effecting a “regime change”.