Tag Archives: Karl Marx

Antonio Negri: Marx Beyond Marx

To sum up Negri’s exposition of Marx’s line of argument in the Grundrisse: capitalism is a social system with two subjectivities, in which one subject (capital) controls the other subject (working class) through the imposition of work and surplus work. … Continue reading

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Revolution and Destruction: The Fascist Obstacle

From lundimatin #407, December 11, 2023 … This text was written by the philosopher Jean Vioulac for a gathering organised by Lundimatin at the Consulate, in Paris, on December 2, 2023. The theme revived the most haunting dichotomy of our contemporary … Continue reading

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Fredy Perlman: Commodity Fetishism: an introduction to I.I. Rubin’s Essay on Marx’s Theory of Value

Uri Gordon’s recently published essay on Fredy Perlman’s anarchist social theory “Leviathan’s Body” serves as an inspiration to return to Perlman’s writings. Perlman’s starting point, which informs his entire body of work, is a critique of alienation as practice. Initially … Continue reading

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Reading the past through the present: Marx and Engels on the Crimean War

Let us rather observe this lad of ten, clad in an ancient cap, his father’s probably, shoes worn on bare feet, and nankeen breeches, held up by a single suspender, who had climbed over the wall at the very beginning … Continue reading

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Anarchism: Giving form to autonomy

This post was born of an exchange of letters between John Holloway and Michael Hardt that focused on the issue of “anti-capitalist social movements” and their “organisation” and “institutionalisation”. The letters date from 2011, but their subject remains contemporary, as … Continue reading

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The Paris Commune: Karl Marx

The work of Karl Marx on the Paris Commune of 1871 remains central for the understanding of the Commune as a “revolution”. We share below a text known as The Third Address of May 30th, 1871, part of a collection … Continue reading

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The Paris Commune

To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that’s the point. Arthur Rimbaud We share the words and sentiment of Mitchel Abidor, when he writes that the “Paris Commune of 1871 has been a blank screen … Continue reading

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