May 18, 2023
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”.
There is a common, overly-simplistic argument sometimes put forward by Marxists that “socialism” will necessarily entail the elimination …
May 18, 2023
This post has two follow-up posts: “Will Socialism End Racism?” and “Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely”.
A friend asked me the others if I believe in the Marxist idea of class above …
Apr 15, 2023
Per Marx and Engels, every closed social order is doomed to one of two fates:
Self-annihilation due to its own internal contradictions. A change from within which changes the mode of production and thus the …
Apr 10, 2023
Crisis is endemic to capitalism, but in fact it is endemic to all organisms (i.e., patterns of matter apparently being driven through time by a logic other than that of matter itself).
This is a fundamental …
Mar 9, 2023
On one level, there is no real separation between humanity and the rest of the natural world. We are animals, we interact with and exchange energy with other species, etc. Actually, even further, on some level …
Mar 8, 2023
Capital has two core contradictions, or incompatibilities, with the world it exists within:
The contradiction with human nature: the class divide which sees some exploited, made to suffer, deprived materially …
Jan 12, 2023
The following is written as a sort of near future sci-fi short story, to illustrate life in a virtual commune.
Today marks my one year anniversary as a member of PUNCH (“People’s Union for Networked Communism …
Jan 12, 2023
This post proposes a new organizational form called a “virtual commune”. If you want to jump right into what that form could look like in practice, check out this post. The following is an analysis …
Jan 12, 2023
This is just a short note on the idea of “base vs superstructure”. The distinction is often made in Marxism between the economic base and the “superstructure”, which are the …
Nov 21, 2022
I threw a leaf in the stream.
After smoothly travelling downstream a little,
It gets stuck against a rock.
I stood watching that leaf, and then:
Another one, smaller, on a slightly different trajectory,
Flew …