Tag: Marxist Theory
Life versus Capital
Nicholas De Genova asks how the pandemic forces us to rethink the relations among capital, state power, and human life?
Salt in the Wound
Juan Grigera asks how we should understand the crises emerging from Covid-19?
The Virus Infects Politics, Part Two
Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.
The Virus Infects Politics, Part One
Philosopher Michael Bray provides us with six theses on social reproduction, biopolitical economies, and the legitimacy of states in the context of the current crisis.
Leninism?
Charles Post asks what we should understand today by the term “Leninism”?
COVID Capitalism
Tithi Bhattacharya and Gareth Dale argue that COVID-19 reveals capitalist system’s stark prioritization of profitmaking over lifemaking. Within such a system, crises like the present one will become the norm, rather than an anomaly.
COVID-19 as Social Murder
Josh Seim argues that COVID-19 isn’t just a pandemic and that we should put the homicidal structures of capitalism on trial.
An Organic Crisis Is Upon Us
As the world descends into chaos, political struggles are articulated in unexpected ways. Zachary Levenson argues that Gramsci’s concept of “organic crisis” can help us make sense of this mess and what it all means for the politics of class struggle.
Jordy Cummings’s Review of Comrade
Jodi Dean responds to Jordy Cummings’s review of her book, Comrade. Is it possible to think, write, and practice a communism that is not fully determined by the debates and divisions of the twentieth century?
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Historically, epidemics have spread through two forms of movement: trade and war. Kim Moody examines how the pace of this spread accelerated dramatically with the rise of capitalism.