Direct action makes history A central part of our organising practice at Recomposition is direct action. In this piece our comrade Marianne addresses criticisms of Occupy…
Bifo says relax - Malcolm Harris Malcolm Harris contests the viability of Berardi's conception of "slowing down" to defeat capitalism.
The making of an Atlantic ruling class - Kees van der Pijl Kees van der Pijl traces the formation of a transatlantic ruling class from the early 20th century…
The separation of the economic and the political in capitalism - Ellen Meiskins Wood Ellen Meiskins Wood analyses the extent to which capitalism can be separated into political (state)…
The origins of capitalist development: a critique of neo-Smithian Marxism - Robert Brenner Robert Brenner's critique of the market-focused theories of development which…
The problem with work - Kathi Weeks The introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries'.
The make-believe world of David Graeber: reflections on the ideology underlying the failed occupation of Zuccotti Park - Andrew Kliman Andrew Kliman of the Marxist-Humanist initiative criticises the arguments of David…
The fusion of anabaptist, Indian and African as the American radical tradition - Loren Goldner The following article attempts, in a nutshell, to apply Ernst Bloch's idea of "non-contemporary contradiction" to American history. It was written for a symposium on "Religion and Politics" in the U.S.-based journal Against the Current.
Let’s Talk About Another Burning Color: Black Flame vs. Red Fire Extinguisher? Nate Hawthorne reviews the book, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and…
State and capital: a Marxist debate - John Holloway and Sol Picciotto First published in 1979, this book contains a collection of texts from the German 'state derivation'…
Capitalism and reproduction - Mariarosa Dalla Costa A Marxist-feminist analysis of how capitalism is reproduced and develops.
Anti-economics and anti-politics: on the reformulation of social emancipation after the end of "marxism" - Robert Kurz In this 1997 essay, Robert Kurz discusses the question of the “embryonic form” of …