Month: August 2013
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the feeble found refuge in a belief in miracles (#marxtheory)
As always the feeble found refuge in a belief in miracles, believing that the enemy has been vanquished when they have only conjured it away in a fantasy, sacrificing any understanding of the present to an ineffectual glorification of the future in store for them, and of deeds that they had in their hearts but…
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Workers have no nation of their own (#marxtheory)
Communists have been further criticised for wanting to abolish the nation and nationalities. Workers have no nation of their own. We cannot take from them what they do not have. Since the proletariat must first of all take political control, raise itself up to be the class of the nation, must constitute the nation itself,…
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more comprehensive and devastating crises (#marxtheory)
And how does the bourgeoisie surmount these crises? On the one hand through the enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other through the capture of new markets and a more thoroughgoing exploitation of old ones. How exactly? By preparing more comprehensive and devastating crises and diminishing the means for preventing them.…
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Marxist & Post-Marxist Theories of Politics (#marxtheory)
One of my classes this semester is called Marxist & Post-Marxist Theories of Politics. Dylan Riley is teaching the class. I’m going to post choice quotes from the readings and probably short blurb reflections here — with the tag #marxtheory. This week’s reading: Marx Later Political Writings.
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return of the short, half-baked blurb
I started this blog as a place to sketch out rough notes about half-baked ideas. I publish my more developed articles at BeyondtheChoir.org, among other places. But somewhere along the line I started writing longer, more formulated posts here. And then when I didn’t have time to write longer posts, I stopped posting altogether. That’s…
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“ORGANIZE” as buzzword
I’m always interested in how some activists throw around the words “organize” and “organizer”. The words are often used as mostly undefined buzzwords. As Matt Bruenig Tweeted today, “If I didn’t [know] better, I’d think some people are in it for social status, and attaching the label ‘organizer’ boosts status.” I think that’s part of…
Jonathan Matthew Smucker 