May 18, 2023
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
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
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
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
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 …