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an interesting article on a British experiment with the soviet model in 1917.
prometheusjournal.org/2025/09/24/w...
prometheusjournal.org/2025/09/24/w...
When Soviets were formed in Britain | Prometheus
Are there any lessons from the 1917 Leeds Convention? Gabriel Salter argues it can guide the debates around new left parties in the present.
prometheusjournal.org
September 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
an interesting article on a British experiment with the soviet model in 1917.
prometheusjournal.org/2025/09/24/w...
prometheusjournal.org/2025/09/24/w...
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When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.
September 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
When I say the US has bet its post-pandemic economy on AI while China has bet its on green energy, this is what I mean: Here, AI related companies account for 75% of S&P 500 returns since ChatGPT's launch. In China, green tech accounts for one quarter of GDP growth.
from Building Power to Change the World by James Muldoon
August 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
from Building Power to Change the World by James Muldoon
July 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"The total negation imagined by de Sade thus doesn’t come at the end, as a threat or prospect of radical destruction, it comes at the beginning, it has alwaysalready happened, it stands for the zero-level starting point out of which the fragile/inconsistent reality emerges" Žižek.
July 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"The total negation imagined by de Sade thus doesn’t come at the end, as a threat or prospect of radical destruction, it comes at the beginning, it has alwaysalready happened, it stands for the zero-level starting point out of which the fragile/inconsistent reality emerges" Žižek.
"The significant feature of Marxist republicanism is precisely that it seeks to create a republican state form that, following Engels, is 'the specific form for the dictatorship of the proletariat'."
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1289/...
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1289/...
July 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"The significant feature of Marxist republicanism is precisely that it seeks to create a republican state form that, following Engels, is 'the specific form for the dictatorship of the proletariat'."
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1289/...
weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1289/...
paranoid reading of my notifications
July 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
paranoid reading of my notifications
back from a week-long "disconnected" event. im now anti-phone pilled
July 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
back from a week-long "disconnected" event. im now anti-phone pilled
„co je kalba? co panák? co lajna? co after?“ tak se ptá poslední člověk a mžourá. „my vynalezli štěstí,“ říkají poslední lidé a mžourají. „dřív kalil celý svět,“ říkají nejpovedenější a mžourají. „my vynalezli štěstí,“ říkají poslední lidé a mžourají.
June 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
„co je kalba? co panák? co lajna? co after?“ tak se ptá poslední člověk a mžourá. „my vynalezli štěstí,“ říkají poslední lidé a mžourají. „dřív kalil celý svět,“ říkají nejpovedenější a mžourají. „my vynalezli štěstí,“ říkají poslední lidé a mžourají.
"As Draper points out, Marx argues for the entire class of the proletariat to seize power. This counterposed itself to the conspiratorial minoritarian revolution imagined by Blanqui."
cosmonautmag.com/2025/01/the-...
cosmonautmag.com/2025/01/the-...
The Adolescence of a Concept: “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” in Karl Kautsky’s Revolutionary Writings
Karl Kautsky’s writings on the dictatorship of the proletariat serve as a waypoint between Marx and Lenin, Ian Szabo argues in an analysis of Kautsky’s democratic-republican, revolutionary Marxist pol...
cosmonautmag.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"As Draper points out, Marx argues for the entire class of the proletariat to seize power. This counterposed itself to the conspiratorial minoritarian revolution imagined by Blanqui."
cosmonautmag.com/2025/01/the-...
cosmonautmag.com/2025/01/the-...
"Socialism is not just about the abolition of private property and the collective ownership of the means of production, it concerns the development of human potential through transforming passive subjects into active citizens of a self-determining community."
June 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"Socialism is not just about the abolition of private property and the collective ownership of the means of production, it concerns the development of human potential through transforming passive subjects into active citizens of a self-determining community."
podle vojáků IDF dělá izrael přesně to, z čeho obviňuje hamas.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
apnews.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
podle vojáků IDF dělá izrael přesně to, z čeho obviňuje hamas.
apnews.com/article/isra...
apnews.com/article/isra...
"Losurdos expansive concept of struggle serves a civilizational narrative glorifying the expansion of the forces of production within the PRC. The question of whether this happens at the expense of the [...]working class seems immaterial from this lofty standpoint"
spectrejournal.com/the-broken-c...
spectrejournal.com/the-broken-c...
The Broken Clock – Spectre Journal
Joshua Nicholas Pineda reviews Domenico Losurdo's Western Marxism.
spectrejournal.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"Losurdos expansive concept of struggle serves a civilizational narrative glorifying the expansion of the forces of production within the PRC. The question of whether this happens at the expense of the [...]working class seems immaterial from this lofty standpoint"
spectrejournal.com/the-broken-c...
spectrejournal.com/the-broken-c...
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If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
velmi doporčuju
denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23743...
denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23743...
May 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
velmi doporčuju
denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23743...
denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23743...
"It is not the case that the struggle for possessions overseas led in any immediate way to the First World War. Lenin was wrong."
April 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"It is not the case that the struggle for possessions overseas led in any immediate way to the First World War. Lenin was wrong."
But to temper our subjection to the tyranny of the symptom is to create the space out of which solidarity may bloom. Resonantly, the struggle for the abolition of value reorganizes our subjective attachments through a kind of emancipatory working-through.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad...
Bad Object — Parapraxis
Errant Marxist-Lacanian ideology Thomas Waller
www.parapraxismagazine.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
But to temper our subjection to the tyranny of the symptom is to create the space out of which solidarity may bloom. Resonantly, the struggle for the abolition of value reorganizes our subjective attachments through a kind of emancipatory working-through.
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bad...
marx on the difference between the "rights of man" and the "rights of citizen". the rights of man are capitalist construct while the rights of citizen are necessary for a real political emancipation
April 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
marx on the difference between the "rights of man" and the "rights of citizen". the rights of man are capitalist construct while the rights of citizen are necessary for a real political emancipation
za poslední měsíc se twitter stává basically nepoužitelný i z čistě technickýho pohledu, každej den je nějakej výpadek, tweety postuju pětkrát, než se odešlou atd. fakt hrozný.
March 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
za poslední měsíc se twitter stává basically nepoužitelný i z čistě technickýho pohledu, každej den je nějakej výpadek, tweety postuju pětkrát, než se odešlou atd. fakt hrozný.
btw v dnešní A2 mi vyšla taková recenze knížky Citizen Marx (za mě jedna z nejlepších knížek o Marxově politice), tak si to můžete přečíst.
www.advojka.cz/archiv/2025/...
www.advojka.cz/archiv/2025/...
March 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
btw v dnešní A2 mi vyšla taková recenze knížky Citizen Marx (za mě jedna z nejlepších knížek o Marxově politice), tak si to můžete přečíst.
www.advojka.cz/archiv/2025/...
www.advojka.cz/archiv/2025/...
"Marx and Engels responded to the latter with a lewd joke"
February 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Marx and Engels responded to the latter with a lewd joke"
The moderate republican Marie d’Agoult, for instance, declared herself "too French" to understand the project of the "jeune école hégélienne," with its "taste for abstraction, [and] the insane stubborness of the absolute."
February 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The moderate republican Marie d’Agoult, for instance, declared herself "too French" to understand the project of the "jeune école hégélienne," with its "taste for abstraction, [and] the insane stubborness of the absolute."
debilni AI reklamy na alze
February 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
debilni AI reklamy na alze
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🔴The EU Commission is holding a consultation today over plans to weaken laws protecting workers needed to prevent tragedies like the Rana Plaza disaster
This is a rigged process - corporate lobbyists outnumber representatives of trade unions and NGOs by five to one
📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
This is a rigged process - corporate lobbyists outnumber representatives of trade unions and NGOs by five to one
📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
www.etuc.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🔴The EU Commission is holding a consultation today over plans to weaken laws protecting workers needed to prevent tragedies like the Rana Plaza disaster
This is a rigged process - corporate lobbyists outnumber representatives of trade unions and NGOs by five to one
📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...
This is a rigged process - corporate lobbyists outnumber representatives of trade unions and NGOs by five to one
📰 www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...