Constructive Criticism

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May 18, 2023
Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”. This post gives an example of the way ethnic groups can serve as particular instantiations of historical roles which occur abstractly. Because I am …
May 18, 2023
Will Socialism End Racism?
This is a follow-up to the post “Class and Race”. There is a common, overly-simplistic argument sometimes put forward by Marxists that “socialism” will necessarily entail the …
May 18, 2023
Class and Race
This post has two follow-up posts: “Will Socialism End Racism?” and “Jewishness Abstractly and Concretely”. A friend asked me the others if I believe in the Marxist idea of class above …
Apr 15, 2023
Skipping past the nasty part
Per Marx and Engels, every closed social order is doomed to one of two fates: Self-annihilation due to its own internal contradictions. A change from within which changes the mode of production and thus the …
Apr 10, 2023
Breakdown as a law of physics
Crisis is endemic to capitalism, but in fact it is endemic to all organisms (i.e., patterns of matter apparently being driven through time by a logic other than that of matter itself). This is a fundamental …