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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Capitalism cannot solve the climate crisis since capitalism is the principal cause of the crisis. One hundred of the world’s largest corporations are responsible for 71% of global industrial greenhouse gases; but these corporations are not prepared to accelerate the energy transition.
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.
“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.”
We can’t fight capitalism or imperialism without confronting the psychic suffering that these systems have spread far and wide among us
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.
While Russia is steadily winning the ground war in Ukraine, the US is determined not to lose the information war.
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.
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.
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.
Three-part article on the future of work since the pandemic slump: Remote Working; Working Long and Hard; and Automation.
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