A social history of the Internet - humanaesfera
Article on the history of the Internet from its initial period in the 1990s, when content was uncontrollable to the private property system (enterprises and governments) until its real subsumption to capital and the state, that is happening today, through "social media", the depopulation of the World Wide Web, the emergence of smartphones, the gamification of commando, “collaborative economy”, the development of the Internet of things, blockchain, etc. The text analyses the contradictions and changes in social relations that the Internet has brought about since its inception.
On transition - humanaesfera
On the transition to a new society through the universally interconnected conditions of existence produced by capitalist society. (Reply to "Notes on the transition to communism," from the collective Kontraklasa, Croatia).
Sobre transição - humanaesfera
Sobre a passagem a uma nova sociedade mediante as condições de existência universalmente interconectadas produzidas pela sociedade capitalista.
Is autonomy advanced by identity struggles? - humanaesfera
A short article on how identity politics necessarily destroys class solidarity and autonomy by reinforcing the separation (and competition) through which submission to ruling class is reproduced - reinforcing all its power structures: state, law, police, company, private property, gangs...
Bolsonaro's conditions of existence - humanaesfera
What happened in Brazil and the history that explains it, from a practical materialist perspective (ie from the bottom up).
What happened in June 2013 in Brazil? - From the incipient material community to its reactionary destruction in the ideological pseudo-community
After five years, we revisited this historic event that marked a shift in Brazilian history (unfortunately, a shift for the worse).
Against the (new and old) familism - down with the family! - humanaesfera
A critique of the family as well as of the ideas of reforming it. The article also deals with the changes of the family in capitalist society, in which there is an increasingly real subsumption of human reproduction to capital.
Huge truck drivers strike in Brazil in May 2018
Submitted by Joaos on May 26 2018 19:22
Initially, capitalists of the freight sector tried to use the strike to bargain in the name of their interests in the inter-capitalist competition against the oil companies and the government. There was doubt whether it was lockout or strike. But then the strike went out of control. When the capitalists of the freight sector made an agreement with the government to end it, the workers continued it and the strike increased even more.
Telegraphic communist theory - humanaesfera
A telegraphic (i.e. brief, concise and direct) presentation of communist theory. Basic concepts: private property, capital, proletariat, class struggle and communism.
A brief history of the state - humanaesfera
How did the state become distinct from the castes and presented itself as a neutral entity that hovers and contrasts with a so-called civil society? What is the relation between the emergence of capitalist power over the world and the emergence of absolutist monarchies and nation-states? This short article presents a synthetic look at the history of the emergence of the modern state.
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