Goldacre: 'Argument is about capitalism, not food ' Ben Goldacre points to the analogies between the 'organic' food argument and the BigPharma vs homeopathy/'alternative medicine' - mainly that all…
Antisemitism and the (modern) critique of capitalism The paper argues that modern antisemitism is the ‘rumour about Jews’ as personification of hated forms of capitalism. I will first look at some contemporary expressions of antisemitism, and theses IV and V explore Adono’s and Horkeimer’s (1989) and Postone’s (1986) understanding of Nazi antisemitism.
Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters - Antagonism Antagonism's introduction to a collection of articles by Amadeo Bordiga, looking at how capitalism…
Open letter to Lenin - Sylvia Pankhurst Open letter from Sylvia Pankhurst and the Workers' Dreadnaught to Lenin, accusing the Third International parties of abandoning communism.
Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism - E. P. Thompson Thompson brilliantly explores the changing relationship to time in class society, describing the…
Modern capitalism and revolution - Paul Cardan Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.
Absolute Property - G. Kay and J. Mott An analysis of the nature and development of private property in relation to the state in class society, and the political prevention of the…
The new world order - Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky discusses the New World Order - tri-polar economically, three major economic powers, the United States still the biggest, but…
Whither the world - Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic of the Troploin journal discuss the changing nature of capitalism and class struggle in the globalised 'post-Fordist'…
Re-visiting the east ... and popping in at Marx's - Gilles Dauvé Apart from North Korea and Cuba, no country calls itself socialist any more. So why bother about old…
Libertarian communism and capitalism - an introduction libcom.org's old basic introduction to our understanding of the world as it is, what we think can be done to make it better, and how a libertarian communist society could function. We no longer think it is particularly good but reproduce it for reference. We have largely replaced it with our introductory guides.
Capitalism under fire - International Herald Tribune In this age of "La Pensée Unique" and corporate control of the mass media it's rare to find articles that get through the editing control net. But this from the International Herald Tribune no less, is one of those rare ones.