The present technological revolution and the emergence of postcapitalist social relations
I will address three sets of questions:
First: is there a technological revolution, and in this case, what does it consist of?
Second: is there currently an emergence of a new type of social relations because of this revolution?
Third question: what consequences such a reality may have for a revolutionary perspective?
Skint 1.5 Smashed Avo
Submitted by With Sober Senses on May 24 2018 05:31
The smashed avo has become symbolic of a standard of living: the bundle of commodities that form the historically necessary level for the reproduction of a large swathe of the working class in the last 10 or 20 years, and which increasingly seems untenable in the future. Moralising about the spending choices of the young is thus part of a disciplinary manoeuvre aimed at increasing the acceptance for a lower standard of living: whether that lowering of standards of living happens through the apparently neutral processes of the capitalist mode of production, or from direct attacks from capitalists.
Living The Dream during Trump's Trade War
Submitted by With Sober Senses on May 4 2018 05:00
Short podcast on Trump, Trade and Capital from Living The Dream - a podcast hosted at The Word From Struggle Street
Against Nationalism and War!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 28 2018 11:47
May Day 2018 Statement of the Internationalist Communist Tendency.
What's the mess we live in - System series - Part 2
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Apr 24 2018 13:49
We write a 'system series' for our local working class paper WorkersWildWest. Part 1 dealt with the historical roots of the system, part 2 looks at the basic features of wage labour and exploitation. Trigger-warning: we shamelessly ignore the value-form, vulgar-Marxists that we are...
资本主义简介
Libcom.org就资本主义及其运作形式进行的简单介绍。
A brief history of the state - humanaesfera
How did the state become distinct from the castes and presented itself as a neutral entity that hovers and contrasts with a so-called civil society? What is the relation between the emergence of capitalist power over the world and the emergence of absolutist monarchies and nation-states? This short article presents a synthetic look at the history of the emergence of the modern state.
R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots - Karel Čapek
A stage play about an industrialists attempt to maximise productivity by replacing human workers with artificial ones dubbed `Robots`.
Monopoly capitalism and the rise of syndicalism – Mark Leier
Submitted by RobynK on Jan 27 2018 03:42
A portion of the first chapter of labour historian Mark Leier’s 1990 book Where the Fraser River Flows: The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia, which may serve as an introduction to the IWW’s syndicalist ideas and practices, as well as what conditions brought about the revolutionary union in the first place.
(Note: Besides the final paragraph, ~3,200 of the last words were left out for the sake of being concise. What was left out went further in depth about how "the essence of the new system of production was [...] in increasing the division of labour and in reducing the initiative of the workers over the work process," showing how some tried to achieve this.)
Bitcoin: Make Way for Cryptomoney!
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 26 2018 19:39
An enormous number of currencies already exist across the world (dollars, roubles, euros, yen, yuan, etc.) – most of them tightly held in the wallets of bourgeois minorities dazzled by the illusion of its self-valorisation – wherever the crisis of the production and sale of commodities rages.
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