Subjects Archives: Marxism

Had Thomas Sankara not been assassinated in 1987 and been allowed to advance Burkina Faso’s development, perhaps the Sahel would have followed his example a generation ago–and things might look very different today.

Marxism remains the most powerful tool for understanding capitalism, but it is not a formula for building socialism.

The Bolivarian Revolution has generated a dense accumulation of lived political experience. Millions have participated in processes of organization, decision-making, and struggle. They have not only witnessed politics, they have practiced it.

Marx, Surplus Value, and the Structure of Capitalism.

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science.

The proposed amendments included softening language criticising Israel for its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, and dropping a reference to “East Jerusalem” to be established as the capital of the Palestinian state as a part of the two-state solution.

He taught with a kind of irreverent brilliance that made you laugh, think, and question everything you thought you knew about both the economy and economics.

A critique of Jacobin’s framing of Ibrahim Traoré, and the deeper problem of purity, legibility, and distance in Western left analysis.

Certain features associated with neo-fascism have manifested themselves quite clearly during its ascendancy in India.

A Leftist Reading of the Palantir Technologies Manifesto.

Why the social brain of humanity is capitalism’s next enclosure

This is the fourth entry in the Marx in Moments series.

From Chávez to Maduro and Delcy Rodríguez, let’s look at how racism and classism are weapons to deny popular sectors their right to govern.

From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.

What emerges in Vida Café is not simply a set of solutions to a moment of crisis. It’s the outline of a different logic: one in which production, infrastructure, and care are organized by the people themselves, and where the capacity to respond to immediate needs opens onto the possibility of something more.

Engels’ essay on our origins and distinctiveness built on Darwin’s own exploration of human evolution and has provided a framework for exploration and research which has stood the test of time, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

The idea of the “creative worker” disguises the fact that all workers are creative-and promotes self-exploitation.

Toward critical consciousness and the development of revolutionary capacity.

Recent comments by Ibrahim Traoré on democracy have spread widely in Western media following an interview, but interpretations that he rejects democracy appear to misrepresent his position.

With the AI “revolution” coming for our jobs, our creativity, our politics, our environment, and just about anything else you’d care to think of, it is heartening to see an emerging critique of the shameless boosterism characteristic of so much discussion of the technology.