Is Marxism, or revolutionary politics generally, sufficient for human emancipation? In Ethical Marxism, Bill Martin argues that Marxism requires ethics as the necessary foundation of any politics which may actually be capable of leading to this goal. The following essay critically examines this book and this thesis. Khukuri features several essays by Bill Martin, and [...]
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Do the beginnings of revolutionary change exist today?
We’ve posted a previous piece by William K. Carroll, on the transnational capitalist class question (a subject on which he has written a just-published book). In the following essay, though (republished from Interface: a journal for and about social movements), Carroll’s subject is what sort of movement, or counter-hegemonic bloc, will be necessary to break [...]
Causes of capitalist crises — and this one
Let’s continue to talk a little more about capital and the crisis. We’ve featured David Harvey previously, but the following gives perhaps a more overall sketch of his theory of the present crisis and of capitalist crises in general, which he sees as potentially arising from any of a number of possible blockage points in [...]
The crisis now, and possible futures
I was able to attend one session of the Global Crisis: Rethinking Economy and Society conference last weekend at the University of Chicago, and want to give a bit of a report on some some of the talks. The conference was hosted by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT, as they style themselves), at [...]
Could the present crisis be an opening to communism?
The following very interesting — and challenging — piece originally appeared on troploin. Thanks to Nick for drawing attention to this. The following quotations from this essay are not consecutive; they are a few excerpted with an eye to showing a main line of thought in the piece. In the capitalist mode of production as [...]
Can the impossible happen?
This essay originally appeared in the July-August New Left Review. After decades of the welfare state, when cutbacks were relatively limited and came with the promise that things would soon return to normal, we are now entering a period in which a kind of economic state of emergency is becoming permanent: turning into a constant, [...]
Capitalist crisis and left response
Perhaps no one has done so much on the contemporary scene to simultaneously advance and popularize a Marxist political economy as David Harvey, who has recently published A Companion to Marx’s Capital and The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism. This interview appeared recently in International Socialist Review. I don’t see a unified [...]
The Cultural Revolution in China: what was its meaning?
The Cultural Revolution in China (the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was its official title) was one of the great revolutionary political events of the 20th century, and coming to grips with it is part of what’s essential, I believe, to any renewal of the communist hypothesis (to use Badiou’s very apt term). The following essay [...]
What could the end of capitalism look like?
We’ve had some interesting and important discussions on this site (see, recently, the comments on the Henwood piece and on the interview with Albo, Gindin, and Panitch) which have sometimes referenced fictitious capital and have often come back to three very large questions: the character and cause of the neoliberal period of the past 30 [...]
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