Subjects Archives: Marxism

Christoph Schuringa’s analysis of the dominant tradition in Anglosphere philosophy provides valuable insights, finds Sean Ledwith.

This is the second entry in our series exploring Marx in an approachable manner. Our first piece explored Alienation; now, we move on to the Social Character of Labour.

We live in times of a deepening interconnected global crises: rising inequality, authoritarianism, fascism, and inter-imperialist rivalry conditioned by climate and ecological catastrophes that threaten life as we know it on planet Earth.

Marx’s Concept of Alienation.

The NVMA is taking up the mantle of King’s vision to create a ‘nonviolent army of the poor.’

The Epstein reporting has only confirmed this retreat by the western media into disgrace and venality. It has only confirmed their betrayal of what should be a noble profession.

Political maturity is finally admitting to yourself that the angriest, most disconcerting communist you’ve ever met was pretty much right about everything.

The Germ of a New World Outlook.

Timo Al-Farooq argues that Trump’s fascism is neither uniquely American nor merely imported, but a convergence of the U.S.’s own racial-terror history and a long-standing admiration for Nazi ideology and aesthetics.

Community-based rapid response networks and irreverent performers are disrupting ICE at the source.

The global number of migrants has nearly doubled in the past thirty-five years, underscoring rising inequality and the imposed underdevelopment of the Global South.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says the “ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’” has become dominant in Israel, and it “is reminiscent of the Nazi race theory.”

Foster’s book renders Marx’s transformation of Hegelian philosophy for revolutionary ends clear in unprecedented ways.

Lars Cornelissen offers an extract from his recent book “Neoliberalism and Race”, which argues that race functions as an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Drawing on intellectual history and critical race studies, he traces both explicit and coded racial constructs within neoliberal thought from the interwar period to the present. The book shows that racial themes have consistently shaped neoliberalism, to the extent that its racial motifs cannot be removed without rendering it theoretically and politically incoherent.

If America still had a Department of Justice, Bezos would be indicted for bribery of a public official pursuant to 18 U.S. Code § 201, which criminalizes offering or giving anything of value to a public official with the intent to influence their official actions. Penalty: imprisonment for up to 15 years.

Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was interviewed by Andreas Vavvos in conjunction with a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism, edited by Vavvos, Leigh Price, and Jan Zumoberhaus. A video of the conversation is below.  

On October 21, 2025, four British newspapers headlined the same story, claiming that a Cambridge study had shown that Frederick Engels was grossly mistaken on the class divisions in Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England, published in 1845.

The Trump administration is using ICE to wage a brutal, racist war on the working class, but mainstream media is desperate to put the blame for ICE’s current murderous rampage squarely on Donald Trump.

From ICE raids in Minneapolis to National Guard boots on the streets, the U.S. is seeing the tools of foreign intervention repurposed at home—a stark reminder that imperial violence knows no borders.

The fact that the use of AI would destroy jobs is thus indubitable, with even Elon Musk conceding this eventuality.