Marxism

Catastrophism, disaster management and sustainable submission - Rene Riesel and Jaime Semprun

In this book first published in 2008, Jaime Semprun and René Riesel examine the attempt by predominantly First World governments and NGOs to utilize the specter of an environmental apocalypse as an alibi to save “industrial civilization” by imposing a rationed form of “survival”, justified by a terroristic propaganda campaign based on fear, enforced by an expansion of the state’s coercive powers, and facilitated by the mass conformism and resignation that “industrial society” has induced in the population by creating an “anxiogenic environment” of “insecurity and generalized instability”; “[f]or the fears proclaimed by the experts … are in reality nothing but orders”.

Last Editorial - Radical Chains

Submitted by griddle on Feb 10 2012 17:43
Margaret Thatcher and John Maynard Keynes

"The message that the end of stalinism and the defeat of communism are the same has not been effectively contested. Yet the irony is that if the working class had never tended to communism, the likes of Hobsbawm, Marxism Today, the official communists parties or even Stalin's USSR would have been neither possible nor necessary."

Situating the Situationists - Radical Chains

Submitted by griddle on Feb 10 2012 17:37

A critique of The Most Radical Gesture; The Situationist International in the Post Modern Age by Sadie Plant.

Walter Benjamin - Radical Chains

Submitted by griddle on Feb 10 2012 17:25

I'm told you raised your hand against yourself / Anticipating the butcher / After eight years in exile, observing the rise of the enemy / Then at last, brought up against an impassable barrier / You passed, they say, a passable one.
 From Radical Chains no.2

Marx’s economics for anarchists: an anarchist’s introduction to Marx’s critique of political economy

Wayne Price's pamphlet on Marxism from an anarchist perspective.

The abyss opens: The rise and fall of Keynesianism - John Holloway

The state of the world economy is proving John Maynard Keynes right in his claim that capitalism requires significant state spending to prosper.

Commonwealth: An Exchange

David Harvey in an exchange with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on their new book Commonwealth featured in the November 2009 issue of artforum.

Close the IMF, abolish debt and end development: a class analysis of the international debt crisis - Harry Cleaver

The political targets of this article are reformist understandings of international debt and development. Opposing theories which 'blame the victim', Cleaver construes international debt as 'a weapon against the working class', and the debt crisis as 'a product of working class power' . Repudiation of debt is accordingly the necessary Marxist political response .

The measure of value under paper money currency – Wolf Motylev

appeared in Pod Znamenem Marksizma (Under the Banner of Marxism), 1922, no.11-12, 164-70 p. This article followed on Kautsky's 'Gold, Paper Currency and Commodity', which Motylev translated into Russian.

Karl Marx: Anti-bourgeois or neo-bourgeois? - Max Nomad

1960s text by Max Nomad, criticising Marxism and revolutionary ideologies in general as vehicles for the emancipation of the educated middle classes. We do not necessarily agree with all of it.