Subjects Archives: Marxism

Karl and Eleanor Marx–father and daughter–share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

Pedro Monzon Barata argues that in the wake of U.S. aggression against Venezuela, education is the decisive battlefield, where sovereignty, resistance, and ideological clarity are forged.

What is Jesse Jackson’s legacy? Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, provides his reflections.

In his contribution to ROAPE’s special issue on Frantz Fanon, Peter Hudis challenges the widespread claim that Fanon had little to say about the Marxian critique of political economy. He does so by examining Fanon’s attentiveness to the sociogenic basis of racial domination in Black Skins, White Masks and his discussion of the transition from national liberation to socialism in The Wretched of the Earth and his final psychiatric writings. By engaging with Fanon’s views on nationalisation, decentralised economic and political structures, and the role of the party, the article argues that what Fanon called the “humanisation of work” was central to a thoroughly democratic and non-hierarchical conception of socialism.

In the mountainous coffee-growing region of Morán municipality, in Lara state, generations of campesino families have built their lives growing coffee. Steep slopes, misty mornings, and hard physical labor are part of daily life in this territory, where coffee is not only a crop but a way of organizing time, work, and community. In recent […]

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.