#Marx

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Western-leftist critiques of capitalism, informed by anarchism/libertarianism, tend to focus on the mechanisms of exploitation. The best example is the simplistic anti-communist metaphor by Bakunin, rehashed by Chomsky, about "the

rachele dini

racheledini1

I’ve finished Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport and haven’t quite got the words to say what an amazing work it is, and how important for American lit+American Studies + for understanding

Liam McHugh-Russell

LMcHugh_Russell

On meaning and significance: (1) Social scientific categories have world-making effects. (2) 'Human capital' invokes and invites us to inhabit a world. It calls a world into being. It is

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trikstr_

what era would you place slavery, colonialism, & imperialism in? i understand that its the orthodox marxist view, but the people i see forcefully insisting that the advent of capitalism

jatella

jatella

what’s equally distrusting about the labor crisis, which COVID has only clarified, is, beyond exacerbating the economic instability of the working-class, it has revealed that so much of the working-class

Chris

AchillesLastWar

The Trump Administration, as villians from the Nintendo series Kirby. Mike Pompeo as Bonkers Steve Mnuchin as Pengy. William Barr as Box Boxer. David Bernhardt as Scarfy Sonny Perdue as

Craig A. Carter

CraigACarter1

1/7. Hegel is an Absolute Idealist & believes that material things are constructs of consciousness. Ultimate reality is not matter, but mind. From some of the reaction against Xian Platonism,

Tamanisha J John

TamanishaJohn

Only peeping at Twitter, but imo: downplaying “identity politics” and “intersectionality” by accepting neoliberal definitions of the two does serve to uphold white supremacy. "White supremacy is the unnamed political

Ryan Adams

One_Tweet_Man

What left-wing is:Leftism is a failed ideology. It is most dangerous because it teaches you that you are a victim. Victim of racism, victim as an oppressed gender (feminism), victim

Weston A. Price Foundation, London 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

WAPFLondon

Vaccines in UK are not mandatory. There is an exemption on evidence of medical reasons and the Supreme Court recognises at common law that denial of free and informed consent

Rebecca L. Spang

RebeccaSpang

"The United States may not be having a revolution right now, but we are surely living in revolutionary times." As my pinned tweet indicates, I have been thinking this for

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/how_marx_failed.htmlAn ok article, but fails at a key point:"Marx’s economic model might be credible when applied to a peasant or artisan subsistence economy, but it is hideously in

Zoe Baker

anarchopac

Class reductionism is fundamentally un-Marxist. Here's why: Marx's dialectical method holds that one aspect of society can only be understood in terms of its relations with other aspects of society

Saifedean.com

saifedean

Dumb communist ideas like UBI are popular among the ultra rich as it allows them to build an army of poor dependent easily controllable slaves to legitimize taking more political

Jill Maud Royer

JillRoyerFr

"Ce qui fait tenir la société, c'est d'abord une bande de femmes" : Christiane Taubira n'est pas la première à le dire, mais puisque c'est elle qu'on entend, c'est l'occasion

Zoe Baker

anarchopac

Some people have responded to this thread by saying that if this is true then anarchists advocate a dictatorship of the proletariat in Marx's technical sense of the self-rule of