Subjects Archives: Marxism

If Marx in Capital lays bare the “hidden” abode of capitalist production, Joyce, in Ulysses, lays bare the hidden (yet all-too-visible) abode of modern reproduction, the arena that’s both the starting and end point of progressive politics, decreeing its victory or defeat.

Unifor Local 252 in Mississauga announced that about 800 workers now have a collective agreement.

Elon Musk wealth has made him the first trillionaire, after SpaceX’s Nasdaq debut exposed extreme inequality, speculative finance, and corporate power.

Why understanding a book means understanding the world that produced it.

Ferrer’s short article offers an excellent example of a simple truth: even many apparently moderate, intellectually sophisticated observers accept the basic premises of U.S. government policy toward Cuba.

In 2015, Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of a single pill of Daraprim, an antiparasitic drug used by cancer and HIV/AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750.00.

Toward a method of critical inquiry.

Most accounts of commodity fetishism stop at the definition: under capitalism, relations between people appear as relations between things.

The Indian economy at present is in the grip of a serious crisis, manifested above all in a sharp fall of the rupee and an acceleration of inflation.

Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia; a regional platform for coordination remains a vital material necessity to safeguard the region against imperialism and neocolonialism.

The Stammheim trials and Germany’s ideological justice.

China’s tourism problem emerged from sudden prosperity. Ours emerges from sudden prosperity filtered through a society shaped by hierarchy, scarcity, low trust, and an intensely transactional relationship with status.

A counter revolution is consolidating itself in the Americas—firing drones and missiles at farmers and fishermen, plotting internal destabilization campaigns against insubordinate governments, and manufacturing lies and fever dreams about some bullshit they’re calling narcoterrorism. This new-old tactic is a hybridization of the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, developed to justify warfare […]

On historical interpretation, the false equivocation of academic revisionism & politically motivated negationism, and the need to reclaim terminology.

On the centenary of her birth, JOHN GREEN celebrates the life—and politics—of Marilyn Monroe.

CounterSpin interview with Karma Chávez on academic freedom.

We believe that it is not international observers, but the Chavista grassroots—the people who have sustained this revolutionary process for twenty-seven years, who buried their dead and resisted sanctions and destabilization, and who are still, slowly and stubbornly, building communes—who should carry the most weight.

The screaming about “tax grabs”, “death taxes”, “class war” and “communism” from the sorry brigade of start-up shysters, investors, small businesses, big capitalists, right-wing journos and politicians is an absolute festival of reaction.

Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Welcome to the sixth entry in the Marx in Moments series. These are three-minute reads examining key Marxist concepts in a clear and accessible way. This week, we focus on so-called primitive accumulation — Marx’s account of the violence that made capitalism possible, and the reason he insisted on those first two words.