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Kohei Saito in Zagreb, September 2023. Photo by the author.

Kohei Saito on degrowth, Marx and the future of the left

By integrating Marxist principles with degrowth, we can develop strategies that appeal to a broader alliance and a wider movement against the capitalist system and for climate justice, argues Kohei Saito.
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‘Capital’ Volume 1: Themes from Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology’

Jason Devine contends that Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ was the foundation for both Marx’s first major writing and his initial foray into a dialectical critique of political economy.

(Video) Kevin B. Anderson on ‘The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads’

Kevin B. Anderson discusses his book ‘The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,’ which analyses the late Karl Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism.
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Capitalism is the problem. Ecosocialism is the solution.

Harry Fairless — In the face of the multifaceted, compounding environmental catastrophe confronting humanity as a result of capitalism, what is required is not just socialism but ecosocialism.
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Marx’s value theory, multidimensional imperialism and ecological breakdown: An interview with Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre

Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre discuss imperialism’s multidimensional nature, Karl Marx’s value theory and why a value-theoretical framework for studying the global economy is urgently needed.
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The logic of ‘Capital’, the Systematic Dialectic School and a defence of the logical-historical method

William Jefferies takes two new books by Andy Blunden as a jumping off point to re-examine the relationship between Hegel’s “Logic” and Marx’s “Capital”.
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Marx on communal villages as loci of revolution in Russia and beyond

Kevin B. Anderson — In his last years, Marx developed new concepts of revolution alongside that of a united working-class uprising.
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Would Marx approve this year’s Nobel?

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Innovation won the Economic Nobel this year. But would Karl Marx approve? Partly.
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Marx’s critique of political economy: The logic of the commodity

Jason Devine provides an overview of the intellectual roots of Marx’s approach and explains the dialectical logic of his analysis of the commodity.
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Late Marx on colonialism, gender and indigenous communism: An interview with Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson delves into Karl Marx’s final writings to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today.
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The declining rate of profit: Avoiding the key issue

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s latest contribution to the discussion on Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall avoids the key point: the relationship between the proportional rise in the mass of physical capital and productivity rate rises.
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The declining rate of profit: Déjà vu all over again

James Doughney responds to William Jefferies critique of his article “Marx was wrong about the declining rate of profit. Isn’t it time we put this false idea to rest?”.