Where we read through some critiques of the Fundamental Principles & the GIC, discuss what defines a mode of production, and what it means for that production to be stable and reactive.
Where we read through some critiques of the Fundamental Principles & the GIC, discuss what defines a mode of production, and what it means for that production to be stable and reactive.
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Where we read some James Connolly, discuss his way of viewing Marxism as a method not a dogma, and talk all about the Irish flag.
Where we read some James Connolly, discuss his way of viewing Marxism as a method not a dogma, and talk all about the Irish flag.
Two years on from October 7th, we dive into the history of Palestine as experienced by its people, as well as the political economy of Israel and its occupation.
Two years on from October 7th, we dive into the history of Palestine as experienced by its people, as well as the political economy of Israel and its occupation.
Where we read Communism & Strategy by Isabelle Garo and consider her reinterpretation of Marx, specifically the Critique of the Gotha Program, and hassle the post-Marxists.
Where we read Communism & Strategy by Isabelle Garo and consider her reinterpretation of Marx, specifically the Critique of the Gotha Program, and hassle the post-Marxists.
In which we read a history of American Evangelicalism and its tenuous relationship with intellectualism. Why did American Protestantism evolve into such a bizarre collection of denominations? What role did they play in America's bourgeois revolution? What's next?
In which we read a history of American Evangelicalism and its tenuous relationship with intellectualism. Why did American Protestantism evolve into such a bizarre collection of denominations? What role did they play in America's bourgeois revolution? What's next?
Where we take a bit of a break, watch Hypernormalisation and mull over what it has to say about culture and collective politics in an age where everyone is clearly lying about everything.
Where we take a bit of a break, watch Hypernormalisation and mull over what it has to say about culture and collective politics in an age where everyone is clearly lying about everything.
Where we attempt to answer the age-old question "why is the American working class different?"
Where we attempt to answer the age-old question "why is the American working class different?"
In which we return to Agroecology; why it's one of the better models for sustainable agriculture, why it meshes so well with systems theory and socialism, and how our diets and ways of laboring would need to change if we're serious about saving our ecology.
In which we return to Agroecology; why it's one of the better models for sustainable agriculture, why it meshes so well with systems theory and socialism, and how our diets and ways of laboring would need to change if we're serious about saving our ecology.
In which we talk about the USSR and are introduced to the idea of a "non-mode" of production. Does a mode have to be stable and capable of reproducing itself on its own? What does that mean for the transition to communism?
Let us know when you have the answer.
In which we talk about the USSR and are introduced to the idea of a "non-mode" of production. Does a mode have to be stable and capable of reproducing itself on its own? What does that mean for the transition to communism?
Let us know when you have the answer.
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
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The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
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In which we read Jasper Bernes' The Future of Revolution and talked about communization, critiques of the GIK, and the difference between the "Test of value" and a fully functioning communist society.
In which we read Jasper Bernes' The Future of Revolution and talked about communization, critiques of the GIK, and the difference between the "Test of value" and a fully functioning communist society.
Where we rewatch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as a jumping off point to discuss the now well and truly dead progressive bourgeois approach to climate activism, what a socialist climate pedagogy might look like, and the cultural zeitgeist of the Bush years.
Where we rewatch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as a jumping off point to discuss the now well and truly dead progressive bourgeois approach to climate activism, what a socialist climate pedagogy might look like, and the cultural zeitgeist of the Bush years.
In which is suss out the possible points of agreement & disagreement for a Marxist/Anarchist solidarity, banter about how anarchism has changed over history, and question both sides' theories of the state.
In which is suss out the possible points of agreement & disagreement for a Marxist/Anarchist solidarity, banter about how anarchism has changed over history, and question both sides' theories of the state.
In which we read Henry Heller as he makes the case for the transition to capitalism as a process and not event, and as such defends the idea that the English, Dutch and French revolutions were not only all bourgeois but capitalist too.
Take that political marxists!
In which we read Henry Heller as he makes the case for the transition to capitalism as a process and not event, and as such defends the idea that the English, Dutch and French revolutions were not only all bourgeois but capitalist too.
Take that political marxists!
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www.black-lamp.com/posts/the-sc...
In which we read the second part of Chuang's economic history of China and discuss the transition to capitalism, how to talk about transitions between modes, so-called "non-modes" of production and much more.
In which we read the second part of Chuang's economic history of China and discuss the transition to capitalism, how to talk about transitions between modes, so-called "non-modes" of production and much more.
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Where we read Rodrigo Nunes' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal and talk about what organizing means today, cybernetics and our memories of Occupy.
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Where we read Rodrigo Nunes' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal and talk about what organizing means today, cybernetics and our memories of Occupy.
open.spotify.com/episode/7xNF...