Subjects Archives: Marxism

Applying Marxist analysis to our daily lives.

ESSAYS ON FREEDOM, RATIONALITY AND HUMAN NATURE

An anti-gender crusade is sweeping across Latin America: the far right, religious fundamentalists, and transnational networks are mobilising to roll back feminist gains to consolidate political power.

Welcome to the first entry in my new series, Marx in Moments. My goal is to post at least one of these each month; this will act as an accessible glossary of Marxian concepts, terms, works, life events. Each entry will be concise, introductory, and free of academic jargon. Coming in under 600 words, these will be short and simple examinations, which obviously comes with some limitations; they should be read as a starting point.

Congratulations to Avi Lewis on his victory in the NDP leadership race.

Given that we are twenty-five years into the revolutionary process and the bulk of the Bolivarian Revolution’s organizational achievements remain intact, we should not turn so hastily to the Brest-Litovsk Treaty for comparison.

Why We Are Not Separate from the Earth.

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.

Hundreds of social movement activists from around the world marched through Porto Alegre on Thursday to inaugurate the First International Antifascist Conference, a four-day gathering aimed at building collective resistance against the far‑right surge.

The commune is not only a democratic experiment. It is also a form of national defense.

Dialectical materialism is best seen as a valuable heuristic—a practical approach to problem solving, analysis and investigation, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

In a world marked by polarization and power asymmetries, such initiatives remind us that collective action rooted in justice can challenge dominant narratives and support nations defending their right to self-determination.

The Collective West, which unconditionally supports the war of destruction against Iran, claims that anyone who raises their voice against the Zionists and Israel is an anti-Semite who must be punished.

In each country, the far right has its own characteristics: in many cases (Europe, the United States, India), the ‘enemy’—i.e. the scapegoat—is the Muslims and/or the immigrants; in some Muslim countries, it is some religious minority (Christians, Jews, Yezidis).

The following was published this past Saturday by the satirical Montana Department of Propaganda Facebook group, the place “where trolls go to die.”

An interview with Rama Salla Dieng

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative.

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

Social Metabolism: Beyond the “Thing-ness” of the World.

The death of Jürgen Habermas closes the life of one of the most influential intellectual figures of postwar Europe.