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As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se."
The food crisis is just starting.
"The more bourgeois china is broken, the better fares the [fascist] Party, the more inextricably is the bourgeoisie tied to its protection racketeers and the more noiselessly it has to abdicate lever after lever of its economic power to the [fascist] Party." - Sohn-Rethel
Fascist forces begin as useful for liberal bourgeois rule in times of acute crisis. For a fascist state to emerge, these same forces must gain ahold of the state. Fascists are a bourgeois protection racket. Fascism is when the racket gets ahold of the books.
In light of the Canadian Parliament's applause for the Waffen SS, it's worth again reminding ourselves of what fascism is as a political and economic structure.
In the seventh episode (and the second seriesish - new aesthetic), we discuss debates between the first and second waves of ecosocialism on Marx's view of nature, and the importance of understanding this today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...
In the sixth episode, we discuss the revisionist controversy in the German social democrat party. We then offer the lessons of this as a way to begin discussing problems in the contemporary communist movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_j...
In the fifth episode, we discuss how to approach Marx's life and work, the danger and necessity of canonisation, and the importance of developing both analytical and popular Marxist approaches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzo...
In the fourth episode, we take a look at the concept of class in Marxism. We begin by highlighting that Marx never gave a definition of the concept, but only of concrete classes, then work backward to illustrate some elements of his view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN68...
Episode three looks at the "base-superstructure" framework used by Marx in his famous "Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy". It looks at many vulgar applications of this, and a recent intervention which outlines its limits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjR...
The second episode looks at the concept of a mode of production in Marx's work and Marxism more broadly. It gives an overview of the concept and a critique of common reductionist errors in its application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxV...
The first episode of the series gives an introduction to its overall purpose and the need for more detailed introductory materials within Marxism. This one is a very short primer on the general problems the series is intended to address! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-c...
Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since.
Episode guide - a thread
I keep forgetting to watch this
As we said in the last episode of Approaching Marxism, the next will look at Marx's theory of the metabolic rift.
Our upcoming film, For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction, is our priority at the moment, but keep your eyes peeled for lots more content on the environment!
Thank you comrade!
Check out our latest video on the debates between first and second wave ecosocialism on Karl Marx's view of nature!
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...
Source on stats above: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/cereal-crops-decimated-by-europes-heatwave/681361.article
Southern European grain harvests are predicted to be 60% lower than last year, 9.5% lower than the five year average. Agricultural breakdown is not a future scenario; it is already happening.
Check out our video from last year for some background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYKFVXjQcU
"In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering." - Marx
Image of a helmet, held by a metal hook. Text on image reads: "For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction TBA" ""In handicrafts and manufacture, the workman makes use of a tool, in the factory, the machine makes use of him. There the movements of the instrument of labour proceed from him, here it is the movements of the machine that he must follow. In manufacture the workmen are parts of a living mechanism. In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx"
"In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx
