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In which we return to Agroecology; why it's one of the better models for sustainable agriculture, why it meshes so well with systems theory and socialism, and how our diets and ways of laboring would need to change if we're serious about saving our ecology.
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In which we talk about the USSR and are introduced to the idea of a "non-mode" of production. Does a mode have to be stable and capable of reproducing itself on its own? What does that mean for the transition to communism?
Let us know when you have the answer.
On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number. Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
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In which we read Jasper Bernes' The Future of Revolution and talked about communization, critiques of the GIK, and the difference between the "Test of value" and a fully functioning communist society.
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Where we rewatch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth as a jumping off point to discuss the now well and truly dead progressive bourgeois approach to climate activism, what a socialist climate pedagogy might look like, and the cultural zeitgeist of the Bush years.
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In which is suss out the possible points of agreement & disagreement for a Marxist/Anarchist solidarity, banter about how anarchism has changed over history, and question both sides' theories of the state.
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In which we read Henry Heller as he makes the case for the transition to capitalism as a process and not event, and as such defends the idea that the English, Dutch and French revolutions were not only all bourgeois but capitalist too.
Take that political marxists!
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03.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really great stuff - plants the seed for what an emancipatory science might look like while remaining firmly rooted in our present stagnation.
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In which we read the second part of Chuang's economic history of China and discuss the transition to capitalism, how to talk about transitions between modes, so-called "non-modes" of production and much more.
Where we read a piece by our friends over at @critisticuffs.org about Trump and imperialism and have our biannual current events discussion.
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Where we read Rodrigo Nunes' Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal and talk about what organizing means today, cybernetics and our memories of Occupy.
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Baseball 👍
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Image is of the opening paragraphs of the article. They read: “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.” — US President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, 20 January 2025 With these words, Donald Trump declared an end to a central pillar of the American world order. This world order prevailed over half of the world since the end of the Second World War and has prevailed essentially across the entire globe since the 1990s. This declaration by Donald Trump upends the competing calculations of capitalist states worldwide, which now contemplate the odds of war, not only with the US but also with each other.
New article: Peace for our Time
Trump has upended the post-war American world order. What has been undone, and what is to be done?
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Any suggested readings on that latter trend? Not something we’ve come across much!
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Where we really, truly, once and for all, answer the age old question "what the fuck is the dialectic"
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In which we banter about the role of the individual in communism. How can we encourage individualism and self expression? And how could that encourage societal development on the whole?
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A person stands on a black car holding a green, black, red and white flag with the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” on it. Dozens of people are dancing onstage nearby. Photo credit: Emily Kask for The New York Times.
A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast. nyti.ms/3CVV6Au
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Am I crazy???
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In which we banter about Austro-Marxism, specifically the attempts to transform the Austrian workers movement into a cultural movement, and why it ultimately fell to fascism.
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LOOK WHAT JUNIOR CAMINERO JUST DID!!!!!!!!!
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In which we finally read Reform or Revolution, one of the few texts Marxists say you need to read that you probably should actually read.
What is Revisionism? Why is it blatantly anti-Marxist? More importantly, why does it keep coming back?
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