communism

Climate Change: Capitalism is the Problem

Submitted by Internationalis... on May 7 2019 09:37

The capitalist mode of production, characterised by exchange for profit, private property, wage labour and capital accumulation, has only existed for around 300 years. Since the late 19th century it has found its way to even the most remote corners of the Earth by the way of exploitation, dispossession and imperialist competition. It has brought immense scientific and technological progress but at great cost. Wars, poverty, hunger, inequality, and oppression have plagued this system throughout its existence.

Communism Without Workers: An Anarcho-syndicalist Critique Of The Communisation Current

Submitted by Ivysyn on Mar 31 2019 13:18

Anarcho-syndicalist critique of communisation

WorkersWildWest no.8 - A local working class newspaper from west-London

Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 30 2018 17:12

A local working class newspaper: spreading work-place and struggle reports and propagating revolution. Get involved in local distribution or set up your own papers. Comments welcome - stick it to the man!

Thoughts on overcoming despair

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. But perhaps even some cautious optimism of the intellect, too?

Are we now in a period of transition from capitalism to socialism? H. Ticktin’s concept of decline and transition

Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 25 2018 12:24

Capitalism must be overthrown before a transitional period can be initiated. There must be a total rupture with value production. In order for this to happen the working class must capture political power and set about consciously transforming social production relations. Ticktin’s conceptions seem like those other aficionados of a seamless transition to communism, who have long lost hope in the working class being the agent of revolution.

Cuadernos de Negación – Against the Valorization of Life – Part I

We have decided to undertake the task of translation the whole of CUARDERNOS DE NEGACIÓN 11th issue (May 2018), entitled “Contra la valorización de la vida” (tr. Against the valorization of life). Here we present the first part of our translation.

The Working Class Holds the Key to a New World

Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 14 2018 11:49

Such a world will be organised according to the original motto of Karl Marx “from each according to their ability; to each according to their need.” This has nothing to do with the nightmare of state capitalism that emerged in the USSR.

Out of this Capitalist Impasse - A New World Has to Take Shape

Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 27 2018 11:59

The post-war boom melted away decades ago. It produced a mass consumer society unheard of in history. This society was based on the colossal destruction and devaluation of capital in the Second World War.