Karl Marx: Dear Darwin I wrote you, but you still ain't callin'
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got em
Your work provides a basis in natural science for the historical class struggle…
A new Emiliano Zapata biopic is in the works by Alfonso Cuarón. Based on the book by John Womack Jr.
It will feature Diego Luna as Zapata, Salma Hayek as Hermila Galindo, and Javier Bardem as Pancho Villa
A new film about the history of the German SPD is in the works by Babelsberg Studio
It will feature William Dafoe as August Bebel, Oscar Isaac as Karl Liebknecht, Eden Epstein as Rosa Luxemburg and Steve Buscemi as Ferdinand Lassalle
if I learned anything from reading about the Paris Commune it’s that the Columbia encampment needs to march on Versailles now while their opponents are disorganized
Richard Wolff worked with Baran and Althusser but today mostly just advocates for worker co-ops.
I wish he would pop off and show his power level sometimes because he clearly knows a lot more than he is letting on
Why is there a seemingly infinite amount of academic funding for Marxology that basically just says the same thing ("capitalism is impersonal domination!") over and over again in different ways
history doesn’t go thru prescribed stages from feudalism to capitalism to socialism
when Marx was writing about the inevitably of socialism he was writing from a place of hope not supported by his analysis
capitalism won’t end on its own, instead we have choose to end it
The time has finally come.
We're excited to announce that we will be releasing a brand new and official translation of Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend in spring 2025.
It is said that when Noam Chomsky first met Jeffrey Epstein, Chomsky told him “You’re a billionaire, I’m a working class jew from Philadelphia”
“That gives us something in common,” Epstein replied. “We are both traitors to our class.”
On the left:
20th century, fordism, the factory, union bargained health insurance, manufacturing economy
On the right:
21st century, logistics, the warehouse, hostile Al surveillance, robotics, GoFundMe medical crowdfunding, the gig economy
I’m the idiot Italian fascist censor who is reading the first draft of Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks in 1935 filled with references to ‘Ilyich’, ‘Lev Bronstein’ and the ‘Philosophy of Praxis’ and using my comically large ‘Approved’ rubber stamp
1. Ever wonder what the unfinished Volumes of Capital look like? 🧵1/80
Got
@Adobe
Firefly to help fill out the remaining three Volumes on the state, foreign trade, and the world market for me with the power of AI /s