by Boaventura de Sousa Santos | 20 Jan 2018 | Uncategorized
Domination rests to such a degree on the society/nature duality that no liberation struggle will ever succeed unless that duality is overcome. In 1845, shortly after he published the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, Karl Marx wrote his Theses on...
by Matthew McManus | 26 Sep 2017 | Uncategorized
There is a considerable debate about the value of Marx’s earlier philosophical works relative to his mature period writing the three volumes of Capital. Some believe that they are of great importance for understanding Marx, while others such as Althusser[1] famously...
by Gabriel Méndez Hincapíe | 16 Aug 2017 | Uncategorized
On an emerging phenomenon in the field of political affairs. On the Road to the Cybernetic World War Energy is essential for the production and movement of “things”. Using an assemblage of machines the industrial revolution exponentially increased the energy available...
by Jacob Bard-Rosenberg | 14 Jun 2017 | Uncategorized
(or some quickly gathered thoughts) Thesis 1. Contemporary capitalism rarely appears simple. Back in 1848 Marx wrote in the opening of The Communist Manifesto about how “Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has...
by Boaventura de Sousa Santos | 10 Feb 2017 | Uncategorized
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution (RR)1By Russian Revolution I mean exclusively the October Revolution because that was the revolution that shook the world and impacted on the lives of about one third of the world’s population in the...
