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Wednesday, January 21, 2026

In the Midst of a Rupture

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"The modern ancien regime is rather merely the clown of a world order whose real heroes are dead." -- Karl Marx,  Contribution to...
Sunday, January 11, 2026

My Historical Materialism journal debut (in a citation)

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 Accumulating disposable time by Alexis Moraitis For Marx, the same historical dynamic that produces ever-greater levels of human superfluit...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Time at the Disposal of Society

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One hundred and fifty-eight years ago, Karl Marx wrote to Friedrich Engels to kvetch about the reviews of volume one of Capital . Marx enum...
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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Karl Marx, Revisionist

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Between 1857 and 1867 Karl Marx wrote four drafts of what would become the first volume of Das Kapital . The presumed third draft of volume ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

NVIDIA's Distinction: Is there an AI bubble?

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In The Theory of the Leisure Class , Thorstein Veblen coined a number of terms that have become terms of art: conspicuous consumption, consp...
Monday, November 3, 2025

Artificial Dementia

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Economic “growth” is a euphemism for the desired outcome of government and corporate policies to countermand chronic overproduction intrinsi...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Crazy Bondi -- Her Indictments are INSANE!

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I had a chat with Grok yesterday about the indictment of Letitia James. Grok's first two answers regurgitate convicted felon Sam Antar...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Flatline Algorithm

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In a little under two months Every Pop-up Must Span a Gully became the all time third most viewed post on Econospeak, racking up nearly 15 ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Every Pop-up Must Span a Gully

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Every pop-up must span a gully. -- Duncan Birmingham  The gully I aim to span with my pop-ups is the imaginary separation between the inte...
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Thursday, July 17, 2025

THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL IS VERY LIMITED...

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...if the happiness of the whole, and not the luxuries of a few, is the proper subject for national congratulation. -- C. W. Dilke, Source a...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The Realm of Freedom and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

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This is part 2 of a 3-part essay. Part 1 was  Fetters on the Development of the Productive Forces . Part 3 is  THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL I...
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