The value of Noam Chomsky
A "personal essay" from 2015 on some of the reasons why Chomsky's fame -- unlike that of most public intellectuals -- is more than justified. Despite his rejection of the label, he is, in many respects, the quintessential Marxist.
Thoughts on "The Reactionary Mind"
Brief reflections on Corey Robin's bestseller "The Reactionary Mind." It's a good book, but one can argue that, in the end, Robin takes the ideologies of conservatives a little too seriously.
The original content of the communist program is the obliteration of the individual as an economic subject, rights-holder, and agent of human history (Part II)
The second part of Amadeo Bordiga’s exposition of the features of communist society and of the revolutionary party that, in his estimation, is the only entity able to bring it into being. Critique of democracy, and of the “immediatist” conceptions of those who would like to see the party replaced by different forms of organization, is here tightly interlinked with a vision of society which will know nothing of classes or exchange and which will spatially and temporally integrate the entire human species into the Social Man, who will not even have any use for “freedom” in the conventional sense of the word.
Bakunin, historical materialism, and social philosophy – Brian Morris
Two chapters from Bakunin: The Philosophy of Freedom by Brian Morris which illustrate Bakunin’s views in terms of historical materialism and social philosophy which have often been misunderstood or overlooked.
El Manifesto de Aceleracionismo de Género
¡Muerte al género que nos da muerte! ¡Libertad para lxs cuirs! Pero el género muere al engullir su propia cola. El género ya está muriendo. Su último aliento está cerca, pero aún tiene tiempo para salvarse. En nosotrxs está el apresurar a su fin. Impulsarlo, darle rapidez, hacerlo…
Acelerar.
The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto
Death to gender! Freedom to the queers! But gender dies through eating its own tail. Gender is dying already. Its death rattle is upon us, but it still has time to save itself. It is on us to hurry it along to its final end. To speed it on. To make it...
Accelerate.
Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"
Submitted by Marx-lover on Oct 3 2018 21:55
Notes on a classic work of dependency theory.
Gabriel Kolko's "The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History 1900–1916"
Submitted by Marx-lover on Oct 3 2018 17:17
(See wrightswriting.com for more commentaries on left-wing scholarship.)
Notes on a Marxist history of empiricism
Submitted by Marx-lover on Oct 1 2018 01:44
A summary of an old critical Marxist history of empiricism.
An updated and improved Marxism
A brief outline of a 21st-century conception of revolution. The notion of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that smashes the capitalist state in one great insurrection has to be put to rest. Realism (materialism) is better than idealism.
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