Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since.

Episode guide - a thread

As we said in the last episode of Approaching Marxism, the next will look at Marx's theory of the metabolic rift.

Our upcoming film, For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction, is our priority at the moment, but keep your eyes peeled for lots more content on the environment!

"In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering." - Marx

"In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx