The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis - Harry Cleaver Whether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut…
Labour-Power-Points This is a paper by Glenn Rikowski which he gave at the Historical Materialism London Conference, SOAS, 2024. Following a brief outline of labour-power through Marx, Ciccarelli (2021) and Rikowski's own work, it is argued that the fragmentation of Marxist work on labour-power undermines what is critical for its understanding in contemporary society: the notion that labour-power is a ‘unity of the diverse’ (Marx). In…
“For Israel and communism”? - Leandros Fisher (2024) A historical overview of the post-WW2 German left and its relation to the questions of Palestinian liberation, anti-Zionism and antisemitism…
Marx, Socialism and the State - Zaher Baher This booklet highlights several key points, such as the fact that there is no distinction between Marxism and Leninism. It also explores the…
Liberal and Imperialist Marxism In this article, Pannekoek talks about the seemingly unexplainable switch to the defense of imperialism by some left-radical Social Democrats and…
Critique of Economic Policy - Asger Jorn Originally appeared in a series called "Rapports presentes a l'Internationale Situationniste". Translated by Fabian Tompsett and taken from…
Communism as refusal and attack - Per Henriksson The fundamental, and thus most problematic, thesis in Marcel’s text is his (‘our’) abandonment of ‘Marxism’s myth of the proletariat’, i.e. our ‘dialectic that claimed communism to be the result of an internal contradiction of the capital relation’, our ‘outdated notion of the character of the revolt’. In ‘sharp contrast’ to this notion ‘we’ have now realised that ‘communism is to be understood as a “mechanical”…
Class Struggle, Autonomy, and the State in Iran Traversing a century of revolution, counter-revolution, and regime change in Iran, Arya Zahedi traces out the social, political, and ideological…
From Sentiment into Clear Knowledge – Anton Pannekoek This article is composed of extracts of two letters (dated February 27 and April 7, 1947) Anton…
Bakunin and Marx: A Letter to Anton Pannekoek – Kenneth Joseph Kenafick Australian anarchist Kenneth Joseph Kenafick's letter to Dutch council communist Anton Pannekoek (12…
The Soviet Union: A Regime of Capitalist Development An anarchist communist analysis of the political economy of the Soviet Union. Originally published on anarchistworker.substack.com
