Posted on May 18, 2009 by adamfreedom
With “Contours of the Crisis” in the latest issue of Upping the Anti #8 (see two posts previous), Aidan Conway interviews three leading thinkers on contemporary capitalism who also each happen to be professors of political economy at York University in Toronto as well. They are David McNally, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch. Below are three highlights that [...]
Filed under: Labor, The Movement, current events, organizing | Tagged: American empire, capitalism, financial crisis, foreclosures, Great Depression, Imperialism, Leo Panitch, nationalization, nationalize the banks, reforms, Sam Gindin, Upping the Anti | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 18, 2009 by adamfreedom
Workers and popular organizations connected to the anarchist movement rally on May Day 2009 in a public square in Argentina.
What would an anarchist politics look like that spoke to the needs of today’s realities and to today’s movements? How can revolutionaries apply the values of anarchism to an understanding of building mass movements from below, [...]
Filed under: Anarchism, Announcement, Left Organizations, The Movement, the left | Tagged: abolish the state, Anarchism, anarchist organization, class struggle, Imperialism, Miami Autonomy & Solidarity, patriarchy, queer liberation, revolutionary organization, social revolution | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 16, 2009 by adamfreedom
Lenin cleans house, but I think he missed a spot
Rough Draft
What is the best way to understand what we call imperialism, which is basically the economic and political relationship between the first and third world? Lenin has been the main starting point around this question for most on the revolutionary left. Are there basic [...]
Filed under: Left Organizations, Marxism, Theory | Tagged: capitalism, colonialism, core zones, Imperialism, Lenin, periphery zones, third world, Wallerstein | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 16, 2009 by adamfreedom
Notes on Wallerstein’s “Historical Capitalism”
Why the hell do I find Wallerstein so interesting? To be honest, when close friends have told me that I’ve been stuck on him for the last year or so, they are absolutely right. So now I aim to explain to them and others why this is the case and why [...]
Filed under: Theory, the left | Tagged: anti-systemic movements, hegemony, historical capitalism, Imperialism, revolution, the commodification of everything, unequal exchange, Wallerstein, World Systems Analysis | 1 Comment »
