The AnComm Ursula K. Le Guin Re-readathon #1

The entirety of the conversation around whether Communists should work out reveals two fundamental issues with our modern-day conceptions of what revolution is and what Communism even is.

Through the work of neoclassical economist Thomas Sowell, Elliot Goodell Ugalde dissects the orthodox view that takes for granted that scarcity is at the center of economic life. In a... READ MORE

Much of the US supposed omnipotence relies upon the spectacle of the Gulf War of 1991

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

The relationship between Marxism and other revolutionary traditions is a key question for our time. If we approach the issue incorrectly, we risk Eurocentrism and underrecognizing Marxism’s role in th...

The problem with archaic workers’ organs borne out of previous industrial and factory organization of capital is that they wholly mistake the origins and dynamics of class struggle, replacing them wit...

Presentism is taught as a sin. Watch where the rule is actually invoked: never in the seminar, always at the plinth. It is not a method. It is a shield for the planter, and a gag on everyone who judge...

The US plan to destroy Russia was written as soon as the Soviet Union had fallen to counter revolution

France called it civilization. The army that wore the flag was African. The parade was white. The volunteers who stayed with Hitler were French.

The rise of AI has created a neo-Luddite anxiety, and yet contained within that neo-Luddite anxiety is the very core of the struggle of capital.

Part One of the Capitalist Mediation Series

Within Marxist spaces, the resurgence of Kautsky’s ultra-imperialism has reared its ugly head once again through the Marxist ‘support’ of bourgeois nation-states engaged in war.

Recent statements from notable “progressive” political actors are casting renewed light on years-long discussions around U.S. law enforcement. Many of those statements leave a lot to be desired.

The world is being roiled by a crisis of meaning, leading to a pervasive sense of despair and stagnation. Helena Sheehan gives an account of the present-day epistemological nihilism resulting... READ ...

Martin Hart-Landsberg gives an in-depth account of the oligarchs of Silicon Valley and their embrace of transhumanist ideologies that celebrate individualism and technological advancement above all el...

But the prison labor system is also rotten to the core…

The US national debt has crossed $40 trillion. Interest payments now exceed the war budget.

In order to comprehend the environmental crisis that goes hand-in-hand with the “Structural Crisis of Capital,” we must also understand the nature of global value chains and how they contribute... REA...

Multipolar doom, the political economy of American power, and the long war that our study of Marxism prepares us for

No event within modern history has shaped our current politics more than the 2008 recession.

Since the wane of mercantilism in Europe, conceptions of wealth, trade, and productivity have also changed: from one of a zero-sum game reliant only on the productivity of land, to... READ MORE

Left Wing Slopulism: An Infantile Disorder

Why does the Christian who believes in turning the other cheek cheer for bombs falling on children in distant countries?

The Palestine movement has increasingly shifted toward calls for an arms embargo over the years. To end the occupation, we have to stop the arms supply.