Current news: old white segregationist declares right to decide who is and is not black, depending on how much they support him. Incidentally, this is...
A couple of historical points: the state form emerged very, very late in human history, and, in official terms, only properly emerged in the wake of t...
I finished A Thousand Plateaus! Two and a bit months! What an absolutely wild, infuriating and edifying book. The longest I've taken to read something...
This is really cool. Salome was, herself, an incredible thinker and a first-rate psychoanalyst. I know of her work only second-hand - Kaja Silverman w...
Yeah that's a very good way of thinking about it. Deleuze characterizes his approach as an attempt to lay out Being as understood in the mode of quest...
That all said, I'm all in favour of superfluity and excess - only one that is not propped up by socio-economic domination and the entrenchment of stru...
I missed this earlier! Will have a crack at the virtual before moving on to difference: The virtual is best understood as a "problem" that has ontolog...
Ideally, anyone with a stake in how things are run. This means workers, employers, and even the surrounding society and community for whom the work im...
These two things are not the same. Pretty bloody good, by all accounts. And to drill it into you again: the point is not to get rid of work. It is to ...
All wrangling aside, it's really simple: workers are the primary producers of value; they ought to be compensated as such. Again, COVID has demonstrat...
Considering that the NBA was among the first industries shut down as being entirely superfluous in the wake of COVID, I'd say the market is plenty dis...
Except, this entire analysis is bullshit, as without janitors and warehouse employees and so on, the entire economy collapses, as has been the case wi...
"Free" on pain of death or starvation. And again, the point is power asymmetries: the costs of doing these things are infinitely higher for workers th...
Yes, because he's unconcerned with anti-natalist/pessimist bullshit. I said it before and I'll say it again, try to steer this thread in that directio...
Yep, as real as it gets. @"Pfhorrest", its from the Amazon union-busting video I posted, where the mention of a 'living wage' by employees is cited as...
Written interview with Chibber: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4717-capitalism-is-complex-but-not-difficult-to-understand "Your three pamphlets, The...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQeGBHxIyHw& I mean, you just have to look at this dystopian nightmare video, and the idea that collective bargaining ...
It's pretty funny watching American Trumpists bang on about their rights when refusing to wear masks in stores when just a couple of years ago they we...
This particular line of conversation is pretty absurd. States, for instance, nationalize, or even break-up - under anti-trust legislation, for instanc...
Hm, I'm not super familiar with Marx's writings on this topic specifically, but On The Jewish Question has some great stuff on what Marx calls 'emanci...
Universal health care isn't even a question! It's the minimal basis of any society: there's no freedom without a sound body, and there's nothing like ...
Really? 'Cause no one asked me, or in fact the majority of the human population, if the current socio-economic arrangement in which vast swathes of hu...
Do the concentration camps on your Southern border set up by Obama and by extension, Biden, count? No gassing just yet, of course, but hey, with COVID...
I removed the thread because it was indeed a low quality one. A bunch of just-so stuff about the universe having been some kind of hell or whatever. A...
Not in the slightest - perhaps the central tenant of anarchist politics is mutual aid and communal organization, and perhaps the central cry of all le...
Need to hit the sack but a quick comment: the exercise of force and coordination of power are the conditions of, and not constraints upon, the exercis...
Yes and no - one has to be careful about Berlin's distinction here. Berlin's 'positive freedom' was still a kind of individualist, rationalist freedom...
Absolutely. But I think the reworked notion of freedom that falls out of this - freedom that 'takes care of itself', as you put it - is or can be an i...
And in case anyone is a further masochist: a reading on why this is the perfect opportunity for the left to reclaim the value of freedom from the shal...
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