Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation
Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on receiving countries that benefit from hyper-exploitable and precious labor – what I call a ‘reserve climate labor army.’ This asymmetry is the result ...
dclimate dchange, kinetidcs, marxism, Migrant, primitive adcdcumulation
Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some “observations,” but a new style of theoretical hypotheses. They assume a “program” as much as they ...
John Milios/ Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos
A crucial aspect of nearly all contemporary approaches to imperialism is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of the globalized financial sector of the economy produces a predatory version of capitalism, a capitalism that inherently tends towards crisis.
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capital, crises, derivatives, finance, financialisation, marxism, neoliberalism
Elections
Democracy and its instrument of choice are based on citizens handing over their powers to representatives or delegating them to a professional group that decides on their behalf. This implies a misjudgment, because only because the representatives exist does the represented group exist, which in turn creates its representatives ...
Under the aspect of the juxtaposition of commodity and money, Marx speaks in the first three chapters of Kapital Bd.1 of the commodity as a commodity form. If the development of value itself is addressed here at the same time, he speaks of the value form. In this context, he ...
taken from Ill Will
Theses on the White Proletariat
Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris Sotiropoulos
Contemporary capitalism seems too far away from the implementation of any version of a good society.
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In the opinion of Georgios Stamatis, Marx, when presenting the law of the tendency of the general rate of profit, equates value and price, among other things in order to disregard the effect of the so-called Wicksell effects (including the observation of the relationship between the rate of profit and ...
capital, Ernest Mandel, law of falling profitrate, marx, marxism, profitrate
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The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the more pronounced is your alienated life, the greater is the aggregate of your alienated being.
-Karl Marx, Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts, 1844 [1]
Jacques ...
capital, Cioran, Gemeinwesen, marxism, Millenarianism, state
Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the US in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the US has economic, political and military influence across the globe. The usual result of ...
china, Export, Finanz, Imperialismus, Import, marxism, USA, Weltmarkt
Most Marxist discourses understand both the technology, the logical discourse about the teleology of perfect control of nature, which proves to be the decisive orientation for the Western natural sciences, and the technical object, the practical object of the theoretical sciences, as part of the productive forces and not of ...
Ill Will Editions: In your work, you have expressed an interest in thinking a “politics ...
