Marx

I was inspired to write this because of a review of the same book by a fantastic medium writer now under the alias Amar Mujezinovic. Jonas Čeika, better known as the youtuber “CCK Philosophy,” wrote a book attempting to synthesize the ideas of Marx and Nietzsche. Knowing that it was…

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are often counted among Western democracy’s greatest opponents. Their infamous reputation comes from their ideas on violent revolution, the abolition of private property, and the intense communalism in their ideal view of society. However, despite the many Western voices decrying Marx and Engels as violent…

Experts Categorically Prove Marxism Won’t Overcome the Issues of Late-Stage Capitalism — Remember how we used to laugh at the People of Walmart videos? Lately, my fellow citizens, I can’t help but notice we all have a supporting cameo. As they say in Tejas, we look like, “We done been rode hard and hung up wet.” There’s no easy way to say…

“Read Theory before talking to me” “You should Read Theory instead of reacting to ideas you don’t understand” “Please get off Twitter and Read Theory” “And Read Theory. Be a better leftist.” In Karl Marx’s work he describes the flaws of capitalism, the bourgeois, the proletariat, and the Revolution. His…

What it is and Isn’t — This is a response to a recent article posted on medium titled ‘Explaining Marx’s M-C-M Formula for Capital, in which the author writes, “Money that circulates in the form of commodities is capital.” This is not accurate and confuses the issue. Money circulates in the form of money for the…

Ideology and Power (Puissance) with Deleuze and Guattari. — Written by CodyWithoutOrgans Introduction Here, whilst trying to maintain a critical Marxist perspective, I attempt to briefly present the Deleuzo-Guattarian and Foucauldian approach to a paradigm deeply embedded across various Marxian traditions; the problem of ideology and false consciousness. A true part of the puzzle involves Deleuze's philosophy which attempts to critique representation…

Marx’s social ontology of capitalism exists on the edge of possibility, and can only be understood from this standpoint. …

This popped into my head this morning, Marx was not a Christian, OK we all know that, so he was always an outsider looking in. Seeing the Church of England as keeping the poor down and not upsetting the power. What if Marx used the power of persuasion to say…

Here I attempt to illustrate how Marx makes use of dialectics in his analysis of the concept of value and, furthermore, how this approach uniquely enables him to arrive at an understanding of surplus value. I will do this by first outlining what value means for Marx as laid out…