What Is Materialism?
Nicolas D Villarreal gives depth and meaning to an often fraught concept with ample currency in contemporary left-wing circles: materialism. As counterintuitive as it might …
Nicolas D Villarreal
Letter: The Economics of Feasible Degrowth
In the degrowth debate there are a number of misconceptions and fallacies that I believe need to be cleared up. Recently, I was reading Comrade …
Letter: How the Working Class Finds Universality
Doug Lain, in his recent response to our ongoing discussion on the correct Marxist relationship to the existing bourgeois state and civil society, has doubled …
Letter: The Universality of The Working Class
Reading Nicolas D Villarreal’s letter responding to my attempt to break the Marxist left from its lockstep march into irrelevance and/or complicity, I am reminded …
Letter: Lain’s Pessimism
While I can sympathize with the sense of urgency contained in comrade Lain’s recent letter to Cosmonaut, I must agree with comrade Villarreal’s assessment of …
Letter: The Shallow Deep State
A recent letter from Doug Lain has attempted to criticize the left broadly for its failure to wake up to the reality of the spectacle …
Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams
Nicolas D Villarreal tackles the question of artificial intelligence from a Marxist perspective, arguing against both utopian and dystopian prophecies regarding the emergence of these …
The Dawn of Social Evolution
Nicolas D Villarreal reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and outlines a theory of social evolution that answers the book’s objections …
To Hell With The American Gentry
Nicolas D Villarreal argues against populist appeals for a common front between the working-class and small business owners. Reading: Mick Labas. Earlier this week Patrick …