Might be good to be aware of this when beginning mass line style organizing.
All in stray thoughts
Might be good to be aware of this when beginning mass line style organizing.
When we try to organize and grow capacity “in preparation for” a crisis, what this practically means is that we are organizing in response to smaller-level crises in ways that build our organizational capacity for larger crises.
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies, a stray thought about tariffs and international competition.
Thinking about Luxemburg’s analysis of monopolies - Part 3
Fields of study in modern universities are results of history, as well as the job opportunities in the broader economy. How might a leftist university’s research areas and majors reflect leftist interests in what is socially valuable, rather than the capitalist interests in profit and market stability?
Thoughts on the intellectual diversity of university professors, and my personal experience in one sociology class with an apparently libertarian/conservative professor.
Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of crises from chapter 2 of ‘Reform or Revolution’, similarities to the 2008 crisis, and general comments on characteristically Marxist methods of analyzing the economy.
Some quotes from Marx, and many quotes from Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution.
In Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, G.A. Cohen quotes Marx from his Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859) in one of the most useful epigraphs I’ve ever encountered. A full reproduction of the passage, and some small discussion.
I watched Bo Burnham’s newest special. I finally confront my pessimism around the possibility of Left success.