Tag: Marxist Theory
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.
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.
Life versus Capital
Nicholas De Genova asks how the pandemic forces us to rethink the relations among capital, state power, and human life?
Salt in the Wound
Juan Grigera asks how we should understand the crises emerging from Covid-19?
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.
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.
Leninism?
Charles Post asks what we should understand today by the term “Leninism”?
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.
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.
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.