Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post
This episode we welcome Roger Arevalo to the podcast to talk about the Vanguard method, the brainchild of the British management consultant John Seddon. Roger is an admirer of the Vanguard Method and argues for its applicability for a socialist economy.
Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post
Reading this book was like being guided down a path that has led me to our current place and time. It answers the questions that sit burning in my head, "how did we get here?" and "Where does this lead from here?". Her approach to geopolitical conflict is dialectic, leaning on Uneven and Combined Development (UCD) theories from the Bolshevik tradition. Through her historiography of the United Kingdom's downturn as a one-world-power, to the United States' rise to a one-world-power, through its continued decline, she shows how these global economic policies drove UCD between both the dominate state and, as she calls them, their "contender" states, which only weakened and strained the dominate states position. In the case of the UK, the development it engendered in the world meant that, try as it might, the United States stood no chance of replicating the same dominance the UK had. It could not replicate the kind of free trade exploitation that existed between London and its colonies. Each stage of the United States' attempt at maintaining its global role, (Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire) never manifested the level of stability each claimed it did. Each was merely an attempt to reassert itself in the global economic world, and externalize the contradictions of its national capitalism onto other nations. ... read full post
Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post
Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post
Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post
new morozov tech slop 
feels my man may yet drop into techno feudalism
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post
Welcome back after the Hiatus! Apologies for the delay. ... read full post
I wanted to diagram the mechanism of history, how events change one moment into another. ... read full post
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Sorry for the wait, but we can now start Capital back up again!
review of three books about neoliberalism, each tracing it to three very different sources
Another day another perry anderson banger ... read full post
This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post
can't say it's very explanatory (and indeed rather blurry) portrayal of the state, but working with what they got