It’s Profitability: A Response to “Why Stagnation?”
Contrary to Professor Kotz’s view that “the usual profit mechanism that drives accumulation no longer works in the normal fashion,” it is doing just that.
Ideas and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism
The problem with the current trend of idea-centered scholarship on neoliberalism is that it seeks to isolate, and elevate the importance of ideas and experts, giving them a causal primacy that supposedly operate independently from materialist economic forces, the distribution of class power and the conduct of class struggle.
Seven Theses on the Capitalist Democratic State
What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted?
Free Markets and the Decline of Democracy
Capitalist competition is the vehicle that transforms democracy into dictatorship.
The Life and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg After 100 Years, January 1919-January 2019
Luxemburg’s 1906 pamphlet, “The Mass Strike,” analyzed the essentially spontaneous character of the gigantic strikes that accompanied the Russian revolution of 1905, and it showed that the workers learned and developed in the course of the struggle, not only strategy and tactics, but also revolutionary ideas. In a similar vein, she also wrote a stinging critique of Lenin’s more top-down concept of revolutionary organization, in a famous response to his writings on the vanguard party to lead. Also in this vein, Luxemburg penned an essay offering critical support to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in Russia, with her criticism centering mainly on the establishment of a single-party state, something she accurately predicted would undermine the democratic aims of the revolution.
Thinking Through Labor’s Future
What determines which path labor takes will be the degree to which labor mobilization spreads and is tied to a broader political vision. That in turn will depend on the kind of patient, workplace-based organizing that rarely makes headlines.
White Terror and American Capital
As neoliberalism pushes us away from finding collective solutions to social problems some turn right towards hate and racism.
Struggles New and Old: Yellow Vests, the French Revolution and 21-Century Anti-Capitalism
The yellow vest movement has displayed a curious mix of modern and pre-modern forms of struggle, some harking back to the French revolution. These old forms might very well become features of twenty first century anti-capitalist protest.
Remembering Erik Olin Wright: All Ideas Are Political
Socialists today should reject the kind of neutrality that conservatives praise Nathan Glazer for. But we shouldn’t confuse that neutrality with empirical rigor. Erik Olin Wright was confident enough in his political commitments to put them under the microscope. We should be, too.
Climate and contradiction in Marx’s theory of history
Climate change is just another expression of what Marx and Engels identified as the core contradiction of capitalism
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