This is part 2 of a 3-part essay. Part 1 was  Fetters on the Development of the Productive Forces . In volume 3 of Marx's  Capital,  dev...

Compare the following two sentences: "From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters."...

In case you've ever wondered about Stephen Miller's histrionic performance of rage and disdain, here is a brief explanation. In 197...

And all the hope within you dies...  Then what?

Back in December, 2024, The Wall Street Journal carried a feature on an economics preprint research article that showed surprising findings...

At the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought Marx 9/13 session on the Grundrisse last night,   I asked a question from Zoom tha...

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Every few days I check my dormant eX-twitter account to see if there were any replies to old posts. A great series of questions showed up a ...

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Above, from  On Biblical Subjects,  by Robert Dodsley, a lift the flap illustrated manuscript circa 1720 (sold for £20,000 in 2021). Robert ...

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The more this contradiction develops, the more does it become evident that the growth of the forces of production can no longer be bound up ...

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM: Roi had to restrain himself on art because after the birth of the twins he was at Foster and Kleiser, billboard advertisi...