Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 01/10/2023For more of our analysis, check out this video:youtube.comFor Bread: on capitalism's global food crisisIn this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult... 021
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 01/10/2023As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se." The food crisis is just starting.theguardian.comEurope’s olive oil supply running out after drought – and the odd hailstormHeatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America 1137
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 30/09/2023New podcast: www.patreon.com/posts/90077697?patreon.com[Podcast #33] Approaching Ecosocialism, part two: development debates and social bases | PatreonOfficial Post from Prolekult 033
Reposted by ProlekultGlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023"The more bourgeois china is broken, the better fares the [fascist] Party, the more inextricably is the bourgeoisie tied to its protection racketeers and the more noiselessly it has to abdicate lever after lever of its economic power to the [fascist] Party." - Sohn-Rethel 102
Reposted by ProlekultGlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Fascist forces begin as useful for liberal bourgeois rule in times of acute crisis. For a fascist state to emerge, these same forces must gain ahold of the state. Fascists are a bourgeois protection racket. Fascism is when the racket gets ahold of the books. 122
Reposted by ProlekultGlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023In light of the Canadian Parliament's applause for the Waffen SS, it's worth again reminding ourselves of what fascism is as a political and economic structure.youtube.comDecay: on fascism and breakdownDecay: on fascism and breakdown is a feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas an... 243
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023In the seventh episode (and the second seriesish - new aesthetic), we discuss debates between the first and second waves of ecosocialism on Marx's view of nature, and the importance of understanding this today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...youtube.comMarx and Nature | Approaching MarxismPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/prolekultKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/prolekultApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marx... 001
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023In the sixth episode, we discuss the revisionist controversy in the German social democrat party. We then offer the lessons of this as a way to begin discussing problems in the contemporary communist movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_j...youtube.comOrthodoxy and Revisionism | Approaching MarxismApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h... 101
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023In the fifth episode, we discuss how to approach Marx's life and work, the danger and necessity of canonisation, and the importance of developing both analytical and popular Marxist approaches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzo...youtube.comMarx | Approaching MarxismApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h... 101
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023In the fourth episode, we take a look at the concept of class in Marxism. We begin by highlighting that Marx never gave a definition of the concept, but only of concrete classes, then work backward to illustrate some elements of his view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN68...youtube.comClass | Approaching MarxismApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h... 101
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023Episode three looks at the "base-superstructure" framework used by Marx in his famous "Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy". It looks at many vulgar applications of this, and a recent intervention which outlines its limits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjR...youtube.comBase and superstructure | Approaching MarxismApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h... 101
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023The second episode looks at the concept of a mode of production in Marx's work and Marxism more broadly. It gives an overview of the concept and a critique of common reductionist errors in its application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxV...youtube.comModes of production | Approaching MarxismApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h... 101
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023The first episode of the series gives an introduction to its overall purpose and the need for more detailed introductory materials within Marxism. This one is a very short primer on the general problems the series is intended to address! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-c...youtube.comApproaching Marxism: introductionApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h... 101
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since. Episode guide - a thread 163
Reposted by ProlekultAlex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 21/09/2023And I would say the struggle for clean air in general is as important as the struggle for clean water 033
Reposted by ProlekultAlex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 21/09/2023The struggle for clean indoor air is as important to disability justice as wheelchair accessibility. Those who wish to win the former need to learn from the latter's strategy. (Even as wheelchair accessibility still has a long way to go.) t.co/mYNz31JJzHt.coAgainst Segregation: approaching the British disabled peoples' movementBuy or read Judy Hunt's "No Limits" here: https://gmcdp.com/no-limitsAgainst Segregation: approaching the British disabled peoples' movement is a short, intr... 254
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 10/09/2023As we said in the last episode of Approaching Marxism, the next will look at Marx's theory of the metabolic rift. Our upcoming film, For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction, is our priority at the moment, but keep your eyes peeled for lots more content on the environment! 022
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 07/09/2023Check out our latest video on the debates between first and second wave ecosocialism on Karl Marx's view of nature! Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...youtube.comMarx and Nature | Approaching MarxismPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/prolekultKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/prolekultApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marx... 1135
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 27/07/2023Source on stats above: www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/cereal…thegrocer.co.ukCereal crops decimated by Europe's heatwaveThe 2023 European cereal harvest is set to be its lowest since 2007, some 9.5% lower than the five-year average 001
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 27/07/2023Southern European grain harvests are predicted to be 60% lower than last year, 9.5% lower than the five year average. Agricultural breakdown is not a future scenario; it is already happening. Check out our video from last year for some background: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYKFVXjQcUyoutube.comFor Bread: on capitalism's global food crisisIn this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult... 123
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 26/07/2023"In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering." - Marx 011
Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 25/07/2023"In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx 021
