Abstract ( pdf available here ) Time is central to Martin Hägglund’s discussion of secular faith and spiritual freedom. Time is precisely ...

Marx revealed the dark secret of classical political economy: that the writers in that tradition assumed the ubiquity of a distinctive econo...

The return of disposable time: time filled with the presence of the now Framing the revolution as being about disposable time brings Marx cl...

A nation is really rich if the working day is 6 hours rather than twelve. In “The Trinity Formula,” in chapter 48 of volume 3 of Capital , ...

The revolutionary class “The working class is either revolutionary or it is nothing,” Marx wrote to German politician J.B. von Schweitzer ...

From sufficiency to planned obsolescence… and back? In the Grundrisse, Karl Marx argued that capital’s response to the barrier to increasi...

 Pauperism and “minus-labour” “It is already contained in the concept of the free labourer, that he is a pauper…“ Pauperism and surplus ...

 Alienated labour and disposable time Marx’s remarkable, yet largely neglected statement that “[t]he whole development of wealth rests on th...

 Inversion Marx stated repeatedly in the Grundrisse that capital inverts the relationship between necessary and superfluous labour time. ...

Ambivalence Published in 1821, The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties was a major influence on Marx's analysis of ‘dispos...

Der Gefesselte Marx Karl Marx's preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy contains the best-known description of...

The second part of my book proposal is a chapter outline and summary. I will be doing that on the installment plan, one chapter at a time. B...

Marx’s Fetters and the Realm of Freedom: a remedial reading Tom Walker Overview (chapter summaries will be presented in a future post) This ...

The historical dust has not settled, but at this moment it seems clear that a proletariat which does not embrace Marxism is entirely possibl...

While looking for old sources discussing the "manpower channeling" policies of the U.S. Selective Service (draft) during the Vietn...