In Marx's "Estranged Labour," he concludes that every category of political economy (e.g. capital, money, commodity, and so on) derives from alienated (estranged) labor. Since alienated labor is the root of capitalism, universal human emancipation is the emancipation of workers.
We have just learned of over a dozen F-1 visa revocations across the University of California system: 4 at Berkeley, 8 at UCLA, 5 at UCSD, 5 at UCI, 3 at UCSB. L Some are still learning more about why; others are related to existing criminal records.
I did not expect my tweets on the Hungarian Revolution to go viral. If you recently followed me, I like to introduce myself: I'm a Marxist Humanist who sees Marx's body of work as the Philosophy of Praxis embodying the spirit of Hegelian dialectics as absolute negativity.
We have two new titles out this week - Capital's Grave by Jodi Dean and The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads by Kevin B. Anderson.
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The violence in Amsterdam last night has been widely described as a pogrom against Jews. This is not only misleading but politically dangerous. A thread.
"I die every day. The cell looks like a tiny, airtight box...a small window...was closed a day after I was moved to it...Even the so-called porthole in the cell door was closed...I suffocate in hopes of finding oxygen molecules to breathe and survive.”
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The current UN Special Rappoteur on Torture, @DrAliceJEdwards, has abjectly failed to do her job on the torture of Palestinians, which has reached unprecedented levels since October 7. Shame on you for this failure.
My interview with Federico Fuentes of the Australian Links site-- Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world: Interview with Kevin B Anderson https://t.co/D6BPuKeh6s
My latest article Organizing Solidarity Across the World Divide: From the Palestine Genocide to Marx and Marxist-Humanism on Indigenous Communism - IMHO Journal https://t.co/K3J9gYvumY
Walter Benjamin memorial, Portbou.
"It is more difficult to honor the anonymous than the renowned. Historical construction is devoted to the memory of the anonymous."