The Meaning of ‘So-Called Primitive Accumulation’
Marx considered “primitive accumulation” to be a misleading and erroneous concept. Understanding what he actually wrote shines light on two essential Marxist concepts: exploitation and expropriation.
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America, Where Great Literature Kicked The Bucket
“I am endlessly grateful to American literature. But it is gone. I come to its tombstones, and I mourn. But after laying down some flowers in front of great names, I know that it is time to move on…. This is not the America that I loved and admired. That is why I do not live there, anymore, for many years.”
Ghost Stories of Capitalism: Mental Health is a Class Issue
We can’t fight capitalism or imperialism without confronting the psychic suffering that these systems have spread far and wide among us
An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance
We see an abundance of food but skyrocketing prices. The issue is not food shortage but speculation on food commodities and the manipulation of an inherently flawed global food system. It is not the first time the U.S. has engineered a major crisis to maintain global hegemony.
US Taunts Russia to Escalate in Ukraine
While Russia is steadily winning the ground war in Ukraine, the US is determined not to lose the information war.
The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make it an Asset Class & Sell it
John Bellamy Foster explains the ‘solution’ master-minded by global finance to resolve the imminent environmental crisis: create a multi-quadrillion dollars’ worth of assets on the back of everything nature does and expropriate it from the global commons to make a profit.
Oil Giants Reap Record Profits from War, Pandemic and Skyrocketing Prices
As working class families the world over struggle to afford basic necessities amid historic inflation, driven by the pandemic and the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, the world’s largest multinational oil corporations are announcing record profits.
Work, Work, Work—So a Few Can Be Rich
We hear a lot about work in the media but hardly ever about what effect it has on the minds and bodies of those who do it, and why it is organized in a special way, radically different than in most of human existence.
The Future of Work
Three-part article on the future of work since the pandemic slump: Remote Working; Working Long and Hard; and Automation.
Capital Flight From Emerging Markets and its Fallout
The recent exit of portfolio capital from emerging markets exposes the vulnerabilities of the cheap money policies followed by developed countries.