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Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

As 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.

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Europe’s olive oil supply running out after drought – and the odd hailstorm

Heatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America

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GlumBird @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

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GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Fascist 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.

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GlumBird @glumbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

In 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.

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Decay: on fascism and breakdown

Decay: on fascism and breakdown is a feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas an...

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Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Approaching 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

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QE9trill @qe9trill.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

I keep forgetting to watch this

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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

And I would say the struggle for clean air in general is as important as the struggle for clean water

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Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

The 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/mYNz31JJzH

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Against Segregation: approaching the British disabled peoples' movement

Buy or read Judy Hunt's "No Limits" here: https://gmcdp.com/no-limitsAgainst Segregation: approaching the British disabled peoples' movement is a short, intr...

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Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

As 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!

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Prolekult @prolekult.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Southern 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=nXYKFVXjQcU

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For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis

In 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...

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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

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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

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""In handicrafts and manufacture, the workman makes use of a tool, in the factory, the machine makes use of him. There the movements of the instrument of labour proceed from him, here it is the movements of the machine that he must follow. In manufacture the workmen are parts of a living mechanism. In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx"

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