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How Empires Die
Rosa Janis, October 26, 2018
Rosa Janis argues for a theory of crisis and social decay that uses elements of Marx's Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall as well as the concept of fragility. Crisis must be understood as something not simply occurring in the economy, but the entire society as a whole. Yet the question remains whether an emancipatory politics can emerge from the stagnation and decay of civilization. Read Article.
On Women As A Class: Materialist Feminism and Mass Struggle
Alyson Escalante, December 4, 2018
The relationship between gender and capital is complex, but a materialist approach to both requires us to recognize the centrality of proletarian revolution for the liberation of women, writes Alyson Escalante. Read Article.
Who Thinks Abstractly? 2.0
Cold and Dark Stars, January 15, 2019
To think in a non-linear way is necessary for scientific socialism. Cold and Dark Stars presents an argument for a systematic, emergentist and complex way of thought that doesn't naturalize the hierarchies of class society. Read Article.
Making State Theory Revolutionary
Donald Parkinson, February 1, 2019
State theory must move beyond questions of methodology and move into deeper political questions such as the political form of a workers regime, argues Donald Parkinson. Read Article.
No Replacement For The Marxist Theory Of Revolution
Gabriel Radic, April 1, 2019
Gabriel Radic argues that various attempts in academia to develop theories of revolution as alternatives to Marx's theory of revolution and historical materialism only serve to disguise the centrality of class contradiction in these events. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
In Defense of the Labor Theory of Value
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, April 21, 2019
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina examines the labor theory of value and references philosophy of science to defend it from critics. Features a reading guide to works on the philosophy of science, Marxism, and their relations. Read Article.
The Party, the Just City, and the Sacred Fire
Cold and Dark Stars, July 24, 2019
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. To pursue an emancipatory politics that can address planetary climate change, one must answer the question of "what is the good life?" Yet for this question to be intelligible, a Polis that understands its relation to the cosmos, prefigured by the Party, is necessary. Read Article.
"Socially Organized Society: Socialist Society" by Alexander Bogdanov
Amelia Davenport, October 25, 2019
Introduction by Amelia Davenport. From A Short Course of Economic Science. Read Article.
Power as Savior and Destroyer of the World
Cold and Dark Stars, December 10, 2019
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. Economic laws are sold to us by those in power as natural laws beyond our own control rather than forms of class power that can be challenged and overcome. Read Article.
