Becoming Proletariat on Stolen Land: Decolonization and Class Consciousness
Jared Houston analyzes Marxist theories of class consciousness and puts them in dialogue with the realities of settler colonialism, arguing that in order to “become …
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Marx and Morality’s Authority
Paul Wolf interrogates the discourse on moral philosophy’s utility for revolutionary Marxism. One prominent criticism of Karl Marx, and of the many “Marxisms” out there, …
The Antinomies of Nietzschean Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Jonas Čeika’s ‘How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st Century Left’ (Repeater Books: London, 2021). …
Towards a New Communism
Referencing Marx, Hegel, and Zizek, William P. Aguilar elaborates a negatory theory of communism as the de-commodification of everything. Xu Yong, Negative 31 (1989) ABSTRACT …
Why Socialism?
Amanda Levi of the Polish organization Akcja Socjalistyczna and Jan Żelazny put forward their conception of a socialist society. If you ask the average disengaged …
Marxism’s Metanormative Critique of Capitalism
Jared Houston revisits debates regarding the normative standing of Marx’s critique of capitalism, advancing the thesis that Marx’s offers a metanormative critique of capital accumulation. …
Why Machines Don’t Create Value
Ian Wright defends Marx’s theory of surplus-value and its claim that human labor is the ultimate cause of economic profit. In the topsy-turvy world of …
The Genesis of the Transformation Problem
The infamous Transformation Problem has long stood as a supposed example of the failure of Marx’s economic theories. Ian Wright gives an explanation of the …
The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program
Donald Parkinson explains and defends the format of the minimum-maximum program using the model established in Marx and Guesde’s Programme of the Parti Ouvrier. Reading: …
Revolutionary Parliamentarism with August Nimtz
Parker and Peter join August Nimtz, the author of Lenin’s Electoral Strategy (now reprinted as The Ballot, The Streets– or Both) to discuss how Lenin …
Shame and Misery: A Materialist History of Gay Politics
With its origins in the onset of the free labor system, Gus Breslauer traces the history of gay politics from the development of capitalism, through …