As civilisation becomes an unsustainable force in its inventible collapse from the face of the Earth, and as the outcome of this factor is the enacting of a post-civilised culture, one must look at the social stratosphere; specifically the buildings surround the capital producing hubs as an emergence from the […]
Capitalism
Works laying out the Left’s view of contemporary capitalism.
Workerism, ADX
Workerism is a term that refers to the supporting of industrial labourers over other modes of labourers. The over-rewarding of labourers who create the capital, economy, nation and material over other labourers can be an element of workerism. In its social context, it’s a sexist ideology by fetishizing the muscly […]
The “Elite” and the Ruling Class, Vil
Who are the elite? The elite has no actual body, it is a myth which is constructed constantly in order to justify the existence of the present state of things. The meaning of ‘the elite’ differs from mouthpiece to mouthpiece, depending on the general intent. For the new emerging social-democrats […]
The Proletarian Woman (1914) by Rosa Luxemburg
“Proletarian Women’s Day inaugurates the “Week of Social Democracy.” The party of the disinherited places its female columns in the front lines by sending them into the heat of battle for eight days, in order to spread the seeds of socialism onto new fields. And the call for the political […]
On Social Democracy: A Betrayal of Marx, René
Social Democracy is, both in theory and history, a betrayal of Marx’s scientific critique of capitalism and the greater communist movement. Throughout this essay, I’ll explore both of these, as well as the betrayal of modern social democracy to socialism as a whole. Let’s start with the theoretical failures of […]
User’s Guide to Détournement, Guy Debord
Every reasonably aware person of our time is aware of the obvious fact that art can no longer be justified as a superior activity, or even as a compensatory activity to which one might honorably devote oneself. The reason for this deterioration is clearly the emergence of productive forces that necessitate other production […]
The National Question, The Mexican Communist Left
The Party of the Mexican Revolution ‘recognizes the class struggle’ to combat the proletarian revolution One of the most characteristic features of political life today, is the fact that the bourgeoisie, in order to derail the attack of the starving and desperate masses, hypocritically and demagogically presents itself as the opposite […]
American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard [Excerpt], Raya Dunayevskaya
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March on Washington The outbreak of World War II in 1939 and the gearing of the American factories for war output very nearly wiped out unemployment – white unemployment. But nearly 25 per cent of the Negro work force remained unemployed in 1940. The very fact that, both South and […]
Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-determination – Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch, Nikolai Bukharin
A set of theses, first published in the single-issue journal ‘Kommunist’ no. 1-2, Geneva 1915, (not to be confused with the journal ‘Kommunist’, of the same name, that appeared in 1918 at Saint Petersburg (ten issues) and Moscow (four issues)), written by Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch and Nikolai Bukharin on the […]
Nationalism and Socialism, Paul Mattick
A 1959 article by the left-communist Paul Mattick defending Luxemburg’s stance on national liberation in the new era of the post-WW2 world. Many of his arguments still bear relevance to the conflicts of today.