Twenty-one: The Imaginary Party must come out of the shadows and become real. Without this, it will not work. To the time factor, which we have already addressed in PCRPM 1, the extinction of the world as we know it […]
Post Covid Prime Riot Manifest – Next Level [Part 1]
Es gibt immer mehr Menschen, die ihr ganzes Leben im Katastrophenmodus verbracht haben. Das Versprechen eines Übergangs zu einer “grünen” Welt mag da wie eine eskapistische Droge wirken, aber der Kater ist unvermeidlich und es bleibt uns nichts anderes übrig,
Übergang in eine “Grüne” Welt? Nekroindustrie, Klimatrauma und radikale Heilung
The question of the origins or genesis of capitalism preoccupied thewriters of the so-called German Historical School and led to fiercedisputes between them in the first three decades of thetwentieth century. Its “background” was Marx’s theory ofcapitalism and its genesis
The recent “Freedom Convoy” of Canadian truckers and their fellow travelers — the technical term is a “clustertruck” — no doubt drew on 2018’s gilets jaunes movement in shutting down the Ambassador Bridge and three other border spans, along with various other
The Political Economy of Tactics
mmortality This note offers some speculative ideas worth considering. One of the key features of all hierarchical civilizations is their rulers’ fear of death. This fear was famously narrated in the ancient myth of Gilgamesh – the Sumerian king who
The Capitalist Degree of Immortality
The best starting point for reconstructing a world-historical theory of ecological transformation under capitalism is found in Marx’s concept of metabolic rift. For Marx and Engels (1970), the theory of metabolic rift centers on the ecological moment of the antagonistic
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES AND THE METABOLIC RIFT IN WORLD-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
In 2012, global CO2 emissions were 58% higher than in 1990, causing, among other things, hurricanes to become stronger due to higher temperatures in ocean catchments and Arctic ecosystems to reach a number of tipping points. The limit at which
Capitalocene and fossil capital (malm; Moore)
Note from Blair Fix: In a series of essays published in 2013 and 2014 on capitaspower.com, political economist Tim Di Muzio explored the concept of ‘sabotage’ as it applies to capitalist power. I recently rediscovered these essays and was so impressed
With money, one can potentially trade all objects, products and relations of an economy as commodities, as purchasable objects, while conversely commodities are produced exclusively in order to turn them into money. Because of this ubiquitous function of money alone,
The distinction between financial and real capital
Colin Harrison writes about power in present-day capitalism. His thrillers intersect and fuse finance, crime and ruthless violence. They are technically precise, written with panache and make you eager to turn the page. Of course, Harrison is hardly the first
We have just updated the charts in our 2014 RWER paper ‘Still About Oil?’, and the picture they portray reads like a capitalist call for arms. Beginning in the late 1980s, we suggested that, since the late 1960s, the Middle East was greatly influenced
Profit Warning: There Will be Blood
A UN report says millions more will go hungry owing to the catastrophic effects of climate change. AFP A leaked draft report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints the starkest picture yet of the accelerating danger
Leaked UN report lays bare catastrophic effects of planetary heating