Anti-Capital

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Accidents never happen in a perfect world, and accidents are few and far between in the perfectly miserable world fashioned by advanced, decrepit capitalism. It’s no…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #11

When you’re dead, part of the problem is that anybody, including people you would never have anything to do with when you were alive, can claim to be your “student,” your “follower,” your acolyte, and…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #11

What happens when there is no mass workers’ movement to be seen or had?

Originally published in Anti-Capital #11

Then

In Ancient Spartan society, Helots were, more or less, the agricultural slaves of the entire Spartan State. They were required to surrender a portion of their…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #11

The commodity is a use-value, an article or object of some use to human beings. Existence may have no purpose; history may…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #11

1. It is fundamental to both Marx’s historical materialism and his critique of political economy that the development of capitalism presupposes the establishment and maintenance of a certain advance in…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #11

This is the first of what will be a series of articles from workers about the conditions in their workplaces. We encourage our readers to write and submit their own experiences in the workplace, whether that includes…

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Mhou

May 1, 2018

On this International Workers Day in the US, we are witnessing a rising trajectory of labor’s class struggles. In the latest issue of…

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S. Artesian

Half of every capitalist, “entrepreneur,” bourgeois is a….shopkeeper; that half made more than half-mad over threats, real and imagined, to his or her property, his or her shop. The…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

There is no shortage of articles, columns, posts on the web about, if not directly titled, “The Lessons of the West Virginia Teachers’ Strike.” That’s good. We never outgrow our need to learn, particularly…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

Broletariat

As described elsewhere profitability is once again on the decline. So the capitalist class, much like the working class occasionally, is…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

Mhou

Three Months Into 2018

2017 was a bad year for the working-class. Really, it was just the latest in a very long series of bad years. The combination of the…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

S.Artesian

So let’s pick up the strands of the economic dislocation from 2008, although these threads extend much further back in time, at least to 1970. At the very least.

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

Mhou

The hallmark of ideology is when one projects what one wants to see happening in a given situation, episode or event in the class struggle, in place of what one is actually…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

S.Artesian

This May 5 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx and that might not appear to be a big deal since a) Marx has been dead for 135 of those anniversaries and b) capitalism…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #10

Mhou

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Mhou

March 11, 2018

An international wave of demonstrations, protests and strikes swept the world on International Women’s Day, March 8th 2018…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #9

S. Artesian

1. Marx distinguishes circulation time from production time as a tool for examining the different phases of movement that make up that total rotation of capital from money to more money. The…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #9

Broletariat

In the previous article we looked at production, distribution, circulation, and consumption as isolated moments and considered in the abstract. The goal of this…

Originally published in Anti-Capital #9

S. Artesian

Revolution, Defeat, and Theoretical Underdevelopment:

Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia

Originally published in Anti-Capital #9

Mhou

Using Marx’s critique of political economy, it’s possible for workers employed in a variety of industries to calculate the value…

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March 7, 2018

West Virginia teachers and school service personnel have returned to work. I wasn’t sure if they would accept the settlement and return to the schools…

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S. Artesian

It’s not exactly a secret that over the last 35 years, labor unions have experienced “lean times;” nor is it a secret that the “lean times” have been codified as…

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March 4, 2018