Tag: Marxist Theory

Anti-capitalism

Why China Is Capitalist

Eli Friedman argues that, as of the late 1970s, China has become a fully fledged capitalist nation-state complete with its own settler colonial projects. Friedman argues China’s economy is characterized by the law of value and the commodity-form.

Capitalism

Notes Toward a More Global History of Capitalism

Andrew Liu explains his new book on the development of capitalism in India and China in relation to his reading of Marx’s Capital. It is the concept of value, he argues, that allows us to fully realize what is novel about capitalist production.

Capitalism

Life versus Capital

Nicholas De Genova asks how the pandemic forces us to rethink the relations among capital, state power, and human life?

Capitalism

Salt in the Wound

Juan Grigera asks how we should understand the crises emerging from Covid-19?

Capitalism

The Virus Infects Politics, Part Two

Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.

Viruses illustrated with beadwork by the artist Ruth Cuthand
Capitalism

The Virus Infects Politics, Part One

Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.

Anti-capitalism

Leninism?

Charles Post asks what we should understand today by the term “Leninism”?

Capitalism

COVID Capitalism

Tithi Bhattacharya and Gareth Dale argue that COVID-19 reveals capitalist system’s stark prioritization of profitmaking over lifemaking. Within such a system, crises like the present one will become the norm, rather than an anomaly.

Capitalism

COVID-19 as Social Murder

Josh Seim argues that COVID-19 isn’t just a pandemic and that we should put the homicidal structures of capitalism on trial.

Anti-capitalism

An Organic Crisis Is Upon Us

As the world descends into chaos, political struggles are articulated in unexpected ways. Zachary Levenson argues that Gramsci’s concept of “organic crisis” can help us make sense of this mess and what it all means for the politics of class struggle.

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