Examining Cuba’s Knowledge Economy: A Review of Lage’s “The Knowledge Economy and Socialism”
In a review of Cuban scientist Agustín Lage Dávila’s new book “The Knowledge Economy and Socialism,” Renato Flores reflects on the role of science and …
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Extraordinary Surplus Value and Capital Accumulation by Ruy Mauro Marini
Renato Flores presents an English translation of Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini’s Plusvalía extraordinaria y acumulación de capital, originally published in Cuadernos Politicos …
On the Indetermination of Wages and its Consequences
Salmin Biao makes an intervention into the ongoing debate over unequal exchange. Introduction Following the article by Rob Ashlar in defense of Emmanuel’s concept of …
How (Not) to Economically Plan in the Age of Climate Crisis
In his critical review of ‘Economic Planning in the Age of Climate Crisis,’ Renato Flores is left with more questions than satisfying answers from Cockshott …
Letter: What Determines Wages?
In his recent article, Rob Ashlar draws on the work of Arghiri Emmanuel to rightly critique theories that attempt to justify wage differentials based on …
World Capitalist Accumulation and Sub-imperialism by Ruy Mauro Marini
Translation by Nathan Eisenberg and Renato Flores. Introduction Ruy Mauro Marini is a pillar of Latin American Marxism whose work, after half a century, has …
Letter: On ‘Not Very Quiet in the Western Front’
Until today, All Quiet on the Western Front was the oldest book on my Goodreads to-read list (January 2016!). When the Netflix movie came out, …
The Horizons of Emancipatory Political Theater: Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Light of Brecht and Rancière
Renato Flores explores the development and impact of Brazilian dramaturg Augusto Boal’s influential ‘Theatre of the Oppressed,’ historically contextualizing Boal’s idiosyncratic approach to theater as …
Letter: Finding Out What To Stand For
A few months ago, I wrote an article summarising my experiences in the base building milieu and trying to understand why we had reached an …
Glushkov and His Ideas: Cybernetics of the Future by Vasiliy Pikhorovich
Translation and introduction by Renato Flores. Translated from here. Introduction The waste inherent in capitalist production is obvious when we glance around: near-empty planes flying …
Marx Did Not Invent Socialism, He Observed It
In part one of a series, Renato Flores reflects on the rise and fall of the base-building tendency. A common aphorism, purportedly from Kwame Ture, …
Letter: What is stopping the DSA?
The recent article by Donald Parkinson was one of the best reviews of the DSA Convention of 2021. As could be expected, it has generated …
Letter: Need for a Workers’ Encyclopedia
Hello “Cosmonaut”! This is in reply to “Knowledge: power and emancipation”, written in 2020 by Renato Flores. First, I’d like to pick on some phrases …
Making Sense of the Lysenko Affair
Soviet agrobiology is infamous for its promotion of the pseudoscientific theories of Trofim Lysenko and their disastrous results. Renato Flores investigates how these theories came …