Cahit Akın
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İTÜ Mech '79-94 | Bilkent TL '01-03
https://www.youtube.com/@cahitakin
Marxism reader in TR/EN.
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İTÜ Mech '79-94 | Bilkent TL '01-03
https://www.youtube.com/@cahitakin
Marxism reader in TR/EN.
https://linktr.ee/cahitakin
Toplumcu Belediyecilik okumaları #1
Toplumcu Belediye kitapçığı 1977
podcast videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDO4...
sunum videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eozl...
Toplumcu Belediye kitapçığı 1977
podcast videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDO4...
sunum videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eozl...
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Toplumcu Belediyecilik okumaları #1
Toplumcu Belediye kitapçığı 1977
podcast videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDO4...
sunum videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eozl...
Toplumcu Belediye kitapçığı 1977
podcast videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDO4...
sunum videosu:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eozl...
"... of ordinary people. If we are to learn from this failure we have to re-examine not only the forms of working class and socialist politics, but also the theoretical foundations of our analysis of capitalism."
Simon Clarke (1994)
Simon Clarke (1994)
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"... of ordinary people. If we are to learn from this failure we have to re-examine not only the forms of working class and socialist politics, but also the theoretical foundations of our analysis of capitalism."
Simon Clarke (1994)
Simon Clarke (1994)
"The failure of Marxism has not been the inappropriateness of its scientific project, but the inadequacy of its ideological and political realisation, its inability to connect its theoretical diagnosis of the capitalist condition with the everyday hopes and aspirations..."
October 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"The failure of Marxism has not been the inappropriateness of its scientific project, but the inadequacy of its ideological and political realisation, its inability to connect its theoretical diagnosis of the capitalist condition with the everyday hopes and aspirations..."
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921— a warped narrative
Beevor concludes that the methods of the October revolution inevitably led to Stalinist dictatorship, writes Steve Guy.
socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-...
Beevor concludes that the methods of the October revolution inevitably led to Stalinist dictatorship, writes Steve Guy.
socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-...
September 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921— a warped narrative
Beevor concludes that the methods of the October revolution inevitably led to Stalinist dictatorship, writes Steve Guy.
socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-...
Beevor concludes that the methods of the October revolution inevitably led to Stalinist dictatorship, writes Steve Guy.
socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-...
Temsilden özyönetime mahallede demokrasi - Cahit Akın
Bu yazıda liberal demokrasiyi soldan okuyarak, konseylerden özyönetime, toplumcu belediyecilikten mahalle meclislerine uzanan demokrasi pratiklerini ve alternatif siyaset imkânlarını konuşuyorum.
cahitakin.substack.com/p/temsilden-...
Bu yazıda liberal demokrasiyi soldan okuyarak, konseylerden özyönetime, toplumcu belediyecilikten mahalle meclislerine uzanan demokrasi pratiklerini ve alternatif siyaset imkânlarını konuşuyorum.
cahitakin.substack.com/p/temsilden-...
August 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Temsilden özyönetime mahallede demokrasi - Cahit Akın
Bu yazıda liberal demokrasiyi soldan okuyarak, konseylerden özyönetime, toplumcu belediyecilikten mahalle meclislerine uzanan demokrasi pratiklerini ve alternatif siyaset imkânlarını konuşuyorum.
cahitakin.substack.com/p/temsilden-...
Bu yazıda liberal demokrasiyi soldan okuyarak, konseylerden özyönetime, toplumcu belediyecilikten mahalle meclislerine uzanan demokrasi pratiklerini ve alternatif siyaset imkânlarını konuşuyorum.
cahitakin.substack.com/p/temsilden-...
Towards an ecological understanding of revolution: The Paris Commune of 1871 and contemporary social movements
Mathijs van de Sande & Gaard Kets (January 21, 2025)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Mathijs van de Sande & Gaard Kets (January 21, 2025)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
February 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Towards an ecological understanding of revolution: The Paris Commune of 1871 and contemporary social movements
Mathijs van de Sande & Gaard Kets (January 21, 2025)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Mathijs van de Sande & Gaard Kets (January 21, 2025)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Revolution as a transition from empire to nation-state(s): Comparing the Soviet and Chinese paths
Luyang Zhou (2024)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Luyang Zhou (2024)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
February 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Revolution as a transition from empire to nation-state(s): Comparing the Soviet and Chinese paths
Luyang Zhou (2024)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Luyang Zhou (2024)
doi.org/10.1177/0725...
"There will be a day in the future when current AI will be considered an archaism, one technical fossil to study among others. In the passage from Capital quoted above, Marx suggested a similar analogy..."
Matteo Pasquinelli
Matteo Pasquinelli
February 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"There will be a day in the future when current AI will be considered an archaism, one technical fossil to study among others. In the passage from Capital quoted above, Marx suggested a similar analogy..."
Matteo Pasquinelli
Matteo Pasquinelli
"It is not what is made but how, and by what instruments of labour, that distinguishes different economic epochs."
Karl Marx, Capital 1.
Karl Marx, Capital 1.
February 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"It is not what is made but how, and by what instruments of labour, that distinguishes different economic epochs."
Karl Marx, Capital 1.
Karl Marx, Capital 1.
"Küçük azınlıkların büyük çoğunluklara hükmetmesine son vererek, insanların kendileriyle ilgili her tür kararı özgürce kendilerinin almasını sağlamak mümkün mü?"
Erkin Özalp, Devrim Nasıl Yapılır (2023)
Erkin Özalp, Devrim Nasıl Yapılır (2023)
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
"Küçük azınlıkların büyük çoğunluklara hükmetmesine son vererek, insanların kendileriyle ilgili her tür kararı özgürce kendilerinin almasını sağlamak mümkün mü?"
Erkin Özalp, Devrim Nasıl Yapılır (2023)
Erkin Özalp, Devrim Nasıl Yapılır (2023)
"The importance of the council idea is not the particular forms that radical activity took in the first decades of the twentieth century, but in its emphasis on people’s ability to organize themselves for social action independently of structures...in capitalist society."
Paul Mattick Jr (2021)
Paul Mattick Jr (2021)
February 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"The importance of the council idea is not the particular forms that radical activity took in the first decades of the twentieth century, but in its emphasis on people’s ability to organize themselves for social action independently of structures...in capitalist society."
Paul Mattick Jr (2021)
Paul Mattick Jr (2021)
Book recommendations that may contribute to keeping up-to-date with the discussions on council democracy.
Amini (2025); Mattick (2021); Popp-Madsen (2021); Muldoon (2018)
Amini (2025); Mattick (2021); Popp-Madsen (2021); Muldoon (2018)
February 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Book recommendations that may contribute to keeping up-to-date with the discussions on council democracy.
Amini (2025); Mattick (2021); Popp-Madsen (2021); Muldoon (2018)
Amini (2025); Mattick (2021); Popp-Madsen (2021); Muldoon (2018)
"Following the defeat of council democracy in Italy, Berlin, Munich and Budapest, and the twin processes of capitalist reconsolidation in the 1920s and the rise of Stalin in Russia, all three thinkers were compelled to address the necessity of rethinking the bases of Marxist theory and practice."
January 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"Following the defeat of council democracy in Italy, Berlin, Munich and Budapest, and the twin processes of capitalist reconsolidation in the 1920s and the rise of Stalin in Russia, all three thinkers were compelled to address the necessity of rethinking the bases of Marxist theory and practice."
Rusya'da devrim koşullarının olgunlaşma sürecinde işçi örgütlülüğünün kendiliğinden oluşumunun ve giderek siyasallaşmasının etkisini ve sovyet'leri kurucu rolünü ayrıntılarıyla görmek için Oskar Anweiler'in 1958 tarihli Rusya'da Sovyetler çalışması sanırım ilk okunacak metin.
January 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Rusya'da devrim koşullarının olgunlaşma sürecinde işçi örgütlülüğünün kendiliğinden oluşumunun ve giderek siyasallaşmasının etkisini ve sovyet'leri kurucu rolünü ayrıntılarıyla görmek için Oskar Anweiler'in 1958 tarihli Rusya'da Sovyetler çalışması sanırım ilk okunacak metin.
"Capital is value-in-motion; capital is a value-machine. What makes capital unique is that its base (concept, essence), while an objective outgrowth of its historical conditions, is nonetheless formless: immaterial, invisible, supra-sensible. To invoke a world, it must take form."
Beverley Best
Beverley Best
December 31, 2024 at 9:55 AM
"Capital is value-in-motion; capital is a value-machine. What makes capital unique is that its base (concept, essence), while an objective outgrowth of its historical conditions, is nonetheless formless: immaterial, invisible, supra-sensible. To invoke a world, it must take form."
Beverley Best
Beverley Best
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak (2005) @princetonupress.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
December 28, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak (2005) @princetonupress.bsky.social
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia by Ilya Budraitskis, Preface by Tony Wood @versobooks.bsky.social (2022) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
December 28, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia by Ilya Budraitskis, Preface by Tony Wood @versobooks.bsky.social (2022) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Tariq Ali, an Anti-Imperialist Life
"In a new memoir, Tariq Ali recounts his work and activism across the end of the Cold War era and the era of neoliberal globalization. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means to be an anti-imperialist in a changed world."
jacobin.com/2024/12/tari...
"In a new memoir, Tariq Ali recounts his work and activism across the end of the Cold War era and the era of neoliberal globalization. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means to be an anti-imperialist in a changed world."
jacobin.com/2024/12/tari...
December 24, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Tariq Ali, an Anti-Imperialist Life
"In a new memoir, Tariq Ali recounts his work and activism across the end of the Cold War era and the era of neoliberal globalization. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means to be an anti-imperialist in a changed world."
jacobin.com/2024/12/tari...
"In a new memoir, Tariq Ali recounts his work and activism across the end of the Cold War era and the era of neoliberal globalization. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means to be an anti-imperialist in a changed world."
jacobin.com/2024/12/tari...
"Winstanley’s appeal to Marxists lay not only in his perceptive social criticism, but also in his recognition of the importance of agency and self-emancipation." tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/gerr...
December 24, 2024 at 9:58 AM
"Winstanley’s appeal to Marxists lay not only in his perceptive social criticism, but also in his recognition of the importance of agency and self-emancipation." tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/gerr...
December 7, 2024 at 7:09 PM
"The argument that Marx ends up making against the republican political economy is that its attempt to establish freedom will run up against the realities of market imperatives..." @brunoleipold.com
jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...
jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 AM
"The argument that Marx ends up making against the republican political economy is that its attempt to establish freedom will run up against the realities of market imperatives..." @brunoleipold.com
jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...
jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...
Bourdie'cü yapısal tarih ve alan analizi...
Duran, S. (2024). Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi (1923-1950) Eğitim Alanının Yapısı ve Dinamikleri’ne Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım. ViraVerita E-Dergi(20), 38-77. doi.org/10.47124/vir...
Duran, S. (2024). Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi (1923-1950) Eğitim Alanının Yapısı ve Dinamikleri’ne Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım. ViraVerita E-Dergi(20), 38-77. doi.org/10.47124/vir...
December 4, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Bourdie'cü yapısal tarih ve alan analizi...
Duran, S. (2024). Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi (1923-1950) Eğitim Alanının Yapısı ve Dinamikleri’ne Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım. ViraVerita E-Dergi(20), 38-77. doi.org/10.47124/vir...
Duran, S. (2024). Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi (1923-1950) Eğitim Alanının Yapısı ve Dinamikleri’ne Eleştirel Bir Yaklaşım. ViraVerita E-Dergi(20), 38-77. doi.org/10.47124/vir...
Bilir, O. (2024). Marcuse’nin Türkiye ’68’indeki Yeri ve “Herbert Marcuse: Âsi Gençliğin Peygamberi” Yazı Dizisinin Analizi. ViraVerita E-Dergi(20), 78-108. doi.org/10.47124/vir...
December 4, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Bilir, O. (2024). Marcuse’nin Türkiye ’68’indeki Yeri ve “Herbert Marcuse: Âsi Gençliğin Peygamberi” Yazı Dizisinin Analizi. ViraVerita E-Dergi(20), 78-108. doi.org/10.47124/vir...
Okudum. Paylaşayım da. Teşekkürler.
December 4, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Okudum. Paylaşayım da. Teşekkürler.
Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy by Tim Christiaens (2023) @timchristiaens.bsky.social
"Christiaens argues, digital platforms ‘exemplify a new stage in the precarisation of labour in general."
Reviewed by James Hodgson
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2182...
"Christiaens argues, digital platforms ‘exemplify a new stage in the precarisation of labour in general."
Reviewed by James Hodgson
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2182...
December 3, 2024 at 11:05 AM
Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy by Tim Christiaens (2023) @timchristiaens.bsky.social
"Christiaens argues, digital platforms ‘exemplify a new stage in the precarisation of labour in general."
Reviewed by James Hodgson
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2182...
"Christiaens argues, digital platforms ‘exemplify a new stage in the precarisation of labour in general."
Reviewed by James Hodgson
marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2182...