All circuits of capital lead to Iraq, Venezuela, Iran; to the creation of 2,3, many failed states.
The decline is not the decline of US “hegemony,” it is a self-demolition of capitalism on the global stage, in the style of the grifter, laying waste to other peoples’ money. And other people.
There’s no such thing as a “socialist political economy.” Political economy is capitalist ideology. It cannot “morph” into socialism, just as capitalism cannot morph into socialism.
It is entirely accurate to point out that capital’s money is the loss of the laborer’s time. Confusing? Just ask anyone who has worked compulsory overtime.
Race and gender are both lens and prism that focus and scatter the light on class struggle. Trump’s value to the bourgeoisie is as a mobilizer of every reactionary current that will be thrown against the working class in the attempt to force the price of labor power below its cost of reproduction.
Attacks on immigrants are attacks on the working class. No deportations.
All workers make the same essential sacrifice to capital: time. One uniform standard wage for every worker at the highest rate.
Restrictions on women’s access to reproductive health care are criminal assaults. Free, safe, abortion on demand.
Behind the bluff and bluster of tariffs and reshoring and trade wars is the persistent decline in rate of growth world trade; the persistent shrinkage in the universe of accumulation; the persistence of overproduction.
There is only a ruling class problem; the same ruling class manufacturing the same deceptions targeting immigrants because immigrants are workers and the ruling class always has a problem with workers.
Discussion on Value
The effective response, the defense of the property-less, begins with the opposition to all deportation; the establishment of workplace, school, anti-raid warning groups; an end to all documentation requirements.
There’s the black hole of debt riding the anti-matter of declining trade, and it’s closing the gap quickly.
So what counts for Marxists isn’t determined by GDP or rates of growth of GDP. What counts are the social conditions of labor that are being reproduced in each working day.
You can always know the aging of a mode of production by its trend towards diminishing returns and its return of the diminished.
The stability of a bourgeois democratic republic is, like the equilibrium of the bourgeoisie’s economy, conspicuous in its absence.
He’s back, the pumpkin hued lout who embodies all that capitalism pretends it never was, can’t ever be. Clown, swindler, molester, felon, perjurer, racist, xenophobe whose greatest strengths are his venality, cruelty, viciousness, pettiness.
The thing about landings is that soft or hard, somebody else, everybody else, absorbs the shock for the bourgeoisie.
Good Friday
Now if at the conclusion of this exercise we were to ask the (bourgeois) class, “Class, what have we learned today?” the class would respond as one, “Create 2,3, many Ukraines.”
The US has failed to grow for the last 15 years.
Boiling Down
That’s the beginning, the jump-off point for Marx’s work. The “debt to Hegel” is settled before, and in order for, the real work to begin.
Origin of the Species and the Ghost of Margaret Thatcher
Scratch a big bourgeois, and you find a small bourgeois. Scratch a small bourgeois and you find a near-psychotic, ten basis points away from driving a car into a crowd.
Nothing triggers the “moral outrage” of the settlers, the colonists of the settler/colonist like retaliation, payback by the dispossessed, the colonized.
Mini-Issue of Anti-Capital
Filling the Tank
Reports of the demise of US capitalism have been filed every year since 1970. They have been and will continue to be premature. US capitalism remains the bully, and the bully has a blow torch.
The Importance of Program
On the importance of program
(Not) Our (Finest) Moment
Response to CCDSA’s ‘Our Moment’
Cluster munitioneers for self-determination
Algorhythm Nation (apologies to JJ, JJ, and TL)
The threat of AI is the function at its origin.
Glossary of terms for Das Kapital
For an average production worker workweek of 41 hours, wages and benefits are recuperated in the first 8 hours.
As difficult as it might be, we should keep Marx’s encounter with uneven and combined development in focus when dealing with those on “either side” of the conflict in Ukraine.
The war in Europe is a war for hydrocarbon markets. The war will not end without the revolutionary defeat of NATO, Ukraine, the US, the EU and Russia.
Mini-Issue of Anti-Capital:
Into The DSA With a Program of Struggle
In its politics, the shelf-life of capitalist “democracy” depends on the stability afforded the small property-holders.
Starting Your Own SoMF Chapter
Using a bookclub as an organizing tool.
Dead Queenie
Painfully Clear to the Casual Observer
The court recognizes no difference between school children and clay pigeons, and acts to maintain the supply of both.
Make no mistake, world revolution, or world war, is what is on the table in Ukraine right now.
If the perpetrators of these mass shootings in the US were black, there’d be more gun control laws passed, enacted, and upheld by the Supreme Court than anyone could count.
Happy Hour at the Anti-Imperialist Bar and Grill
While you were out, or in, World War 3 started because that’s what capital demands; that’s why nations exist.
Clash of the Anti-Imperialist Right-of-Self-Determination Leninists
We’ve gone from “self-determination” and “anti-imperialism” to… class-collaboration, to the brand new same old.
The war in the Ukraine is a war for the European market. Marxists have no interest in defending any of the contesting parties, including the government of the Ukraine.
- No “self-determination” for breakaway territory.
- No division of the Ukraine into separate states.
- No support to the Zelensky government
- For a unified workers’ socialist Ukraine
- Withdrawal of Russian troops.
- Disarming of all nationalist militias, in all regions
- Immediate cancellation of World Bank programs and loans pending review by workers’ commissions
- Immediate cancellation of all US/NATO weapons shipments and military assistance to the Ukraine
- Immediate suspension of all EU funded projects, pending review by workers’ commissions
Here Comes Your 14th, or 15th, or 16th…19th Nervous Breakdown
Follow the money: who benefits if Biden succeeds in fomenting war with the Russian capitalists over the Ukraine? The US liquified natural gas producers, that’s who.
A General Strike Without Organization is General Nonsense
Here are answers to questions you might never ask.
The Social Relations of Distancing
On ‘left’ Anti-Vaxxers
When you’re dealing with a plague, the rats are bad, sure, but it’s the fleas that kill you.
Moment, Motion, Impulse, Imperative
Class struggle against capital, for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, is the synthetic imperative of Marx’s critique of political economy and historical materialism.
A review of Dr. Ambedkar’s “Buddha or Karl Marx” written by request.
The relations of power, of property and class, shred the ideology of democracy.
Endorsing the “progressive” moment of capital’s tremors as opposed to the regressive moment is the abdication of class consciousness, is the trickster’s way of disavowing reality.
The continuing discussion about fictitious capital.
At a certain point, for Marx, critical economics is supposed to “dissolve itself” into class struggle. And when it doesn’t do that?
With the election already certified by the states, Trump had to do more than simply lie, threaten, and insult.
This is the way the bourgeois republic ends, with its “defenders” moving to a place of safety.
The plague follows.
The thousand groupuscules, all imagining themselves the next Black Shirts can’t wait for 2024. And they won’t.
This notion of “American democracy,” a “peaceful transfer” of power, has always depended on the adequacy of the law, of “representative” institutions to the task of protecting private property. They are no longer adequate.
Herd immunity is the same thing as keeping concert-goers confined in a stadium with an active shooter, waiting until the shooter runs out of bullets
The militias, the white supremacists, the police with and without badges are not going away.
Notes From an Anarchist Jurisdiction
“Work at home” is the theory; homelessness is the practice.
Rock Down To Electric 5th Avenue
I’ve seen the future and it ain’t Kenosha, it ain’t Charlottesville. It’s Jonestown.
{Problems with the…}(Law of)Value, (Production) Price(s), and (Average rates of) Profit: Part 2
(Law of)Value, (Production) Price(s), and (Average rates of) Profit: Part 1
The transformation problem is not a problem for Marx. It is a problem for capitalism.
On Education and One Big Wage
The murder of George Floyd is not an isolated incident.
Heroes out, workers in.
The bourgeoisie have already begun implementing the opposite of our below program.
Programmatic response to the Covid-19 crisis. And again in French here ( Comment sortir de celui-ci )
The bourgeoisie aren’t the first ruling class to prove themselves unwilling and incapable of controlling a pandemic, but they sure are going to be the last.
Beginnings of a critique of Commune magazine
A Certain Stage of Development
An era of revolution and counter-revolution
What’s Good For the Price of Oil…
How the violent oscillations of oil prices reflect the totality of capitalist relations
A Month of Not Exactly Organizing: August
Twelve Years and More, 2012-2013
A continuation of the series
Making the World Safe for (New) Democracy
On the 2019 general elections in Greece
A Month of Organizing, Victories and Failures
On the Notre Dame fire
The Advantage of Organizing in a High Turnover Workplace
Report Back from an Anti-ICE Protest in NC
For forty years, the profitability of oil production has been a leading indicator for capitalism. Despite what the Council of Economic Advisers or the Fed tells you, this time around is the same time around in the same circle as last time.
On the 2018 mid-term elections.
Special Bulletin (relevant articles in italics)
From Surplus to Over Production
After the nazi-right failed to mobilize in DC, how we can move forward.
Reflections on the fascist demonstration in Portland August 8th, 2018
On the planned fascist demonstrations in America August 2018
Report Back From a Families Belong Together Event
The Impossibility of a Socialist Representative Without a Workers’ Party
On the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
By the end of May, 300,000 private sector workers will submit strike ballots. As statewide strikes by public school workers continue to spread across the country, dozens of workplaces– big and small– in a variety of industries are idled by strikes. Mass action is a distinct and definite possibility right now.
The state of the class struggle in the United States on May Day 2018. Over 100,000 workers on strike since January 2018.
Deficits are secondary to overproduction
After West Virginia, the strike wave continues to spread across the United States: strikes by teachers and other public school workers are carrying strike fever to other sectors, trades and categories of workers.
The International Women’s Strike
Millions of women took to the streets and picket lines on International Women’s Day 2018. The struggle has many similarities to the Day Without Immigrants strikes and demonstrations.
Not All Strikes Are Created Equal
An analysis of the end of the public school strike in West Virginia and continuing coverage of the ongoing strike at Frontier Communications.
The Janus Case and unionized labor
2 Strikes, 1 Struggle: The Significance of the Communications Workers Strike in West Virginia
At 12:01am March 4th, 1400 communications workers struck statewide in West Virginia and in Ashburn, Virginia. There are now 2 statewide strikes ongoing in West Virginia, one in the public sector, one in the private sector. Mass action is a possibility and ‘Strike’ is the watchword.
Report on day 7 of the statewide public school workers’ strike in West Virginia and the rejection by the workers of the first settlement.
West Virginia Teachers To Strike
West Virginia public school workers of all trades, both union and non-union, have voted overwhelmingly for a statewide strike.
Attacks on migrants are attacks on workers as a class
Net Neutrality Does Not Protect the Internet for the Working Class
Consumers are unimportant, classes are.
Class Struggle vs. Secession
The Disaster is Social, not Natural
For the Creation of a Workers’ Committee for Workers’ Aid
Following a disappointing showing after the Durham statue toppling, an attempt to redirect efforts towards working class organizing.
Why we are not anti antifa; Why we are anti-anti antifa
Clear as can be
Report Back from and Critical Analysis of Triangle People’s Assembly
Report Back from Durham: Statue Toppling
Charlottesville, Results and Prospects
Libcom? Did I really write something about Libcom?
(Great) (White) Hope(s) Spring(s) Eternal
Tsipras? That’s so yesterday. Get with it. Corbyn’s the one.
Arson isn’t just a metaphor.
Save the 2nd Amendment; restore full benefits to the Congress.
Report on the state of the class struggle in the United States on May Day 2017.
Just because you’re right, that doesn’t mean you don’t have to be smarter.
Lending a hand to the Northstar.
On the attacks upon immigrants.
What is Trumpism?
The ghost of the slaveholders’ republic
Here it comes….
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