The Agrarian Origin of Capitalism - Darren Poynton (2011) The transition from feudalism to capitalism is often viewed as the result of a gradual and rising…
The fatal pressure of competition - Robert Kurz 2002 analysis of the phenomenon of school shootings, which the author claims reflect the totalitarian mass psychology of capitalism in crisis,…
The expropriation of time - Robert Kurz A brief essay on the history of people's experience of time and its transformation from the cyclical time of the Middle Ages that was wholly…
The destructive origins of capitalism - Robert Kurz Brief essay on the role played by the "military revolution" in 16th century Europe in the genesis of capitalism and, among other things, the…
Presenting the Krisis Group's Manifesto against Labor - Norbert Trenkle German author Norbert Trenkle's 2001 discussion of the Krisis Group's Manifesto against Labor,…
Reading Marx in the 21st century-Robert Kurz In this introduction to his 2001 book, Marx Lesen, German author Robert Kurz sets forth brief summaries of his concepts of "non-simultaneity", …
In this world, but not of this world - Gilles Dauvé Gilles Dauvé discusses his 1972 essay Capitalism and Communism, Marxism and the state capitalist countries of the 20th century, the position of…
How a capitalist restaurant functions An extract of Abolish Restaurants which outlines and explains the production process in a capitalist restaurant, which we feel is instructive of…
Let's make the rich richer and the poor poorer – that's the American dream! A response to the call by left group MoveOn for "investment, to create decent jobs…" in the US.
Capitalism's Dismal Future - Paul Mattick An essay about the current crisis of capitalism adapted from Paul Mattick's book Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism.
Did the Bolshevik seizure of power inaugurate a socialist revolution? A Marxian inquiry - Paresh Chattopadhyay Chattopadhyay applies Marxian categories to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to…
