Left wing communism

Category: Environment, climate


The ultra-right’s ballot box victory in the Netherlands

– seen from the standpoint of the proletariat, for comrades at home and abroad – By Fredo Corvo The Dutch mass media hailed the preliminary results of the November 22 parliamentary (“Lower House”) elections as a “political landslide”. In doing…

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IDA: Towards an Old Socialism

Cockshott & Cottrell Revisited German, Spanish I. Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis (hereafter also »climate book«) was published in October 2022. This book is another co-production by Allin Cottrell (economist, Scotland) and W. Paul Cockshott (computer scientist, Scotland),…

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BRIC-meeting in South Africa: What is necessary in the face of the capitalist course to war

The BRIC, meaning Brazil, Russia, India, and China,  existst as a ‘bloc’ in 2009. South Africa was added in 2010. These five countries contain 40% of the world’s population and produce more than 30% of global economic output. More than…

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IDA: With the concept of labor time accounting, work can be divided fairly in society

In its series of contributions to discussion, the German weekly Jungle World published The labor time accounting makes it possible to overcome capitalist relations of production. Here is the next article, written by IDA. How long does a seamstress in Bangladesh…

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Against activism

Notes on so-called “messing up” in various recent movements[1] Friday, its’s Black Friday,Saturday it is… 1) Activism could be defined as a pathological obsession with activity, or more precisely as a voluntarist development of activity to compensate for and camouflage…

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Wildcat: Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan and the new Intel factory in Magdeburg

The following article appeared originally in German on the website of the review Wildcat (Pelosis Trip nach Taiwan und die neue Intel-Fabrik in Magdeburg). Despite its ecological angle, the article gives many facts that are useful for understanding the present…

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The 4th and 5th wave… of ideological intoxication

Fellow citizens, conspiracy theorists, and new-look fascists… Under the new “libertarian” flag, the counter-revolution advances more and more in all countries. Whereas yesterday the claim of freedom could be interpreted confusedly linked to the one of emancipation, today, freedom has…

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On the economics of the “Corona Pandemic”

What happens when a real economic crisis meets a fictitious economic crisis? Hermann Lueer GREAT DEPRESSION 2.0 ARGUMENTS AGAINST CAPITALISM 157 pages Real economic crises, in which a natural catastrophe destroys a large part of the means of production and…

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What support for striking workers?

STS and the Bath Iron Works’ strike At this site, I have commented on several initiatives at Facebook that call themselves council communist. 1 Looking back at the experiences of these efforts to publish, to discuss, or to be active…

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The Destruction of Nature (1909 by Anton Pannekoek)

In other languages: French, German, Dutch There are numerous complaints in the scientific literature about the increasing destruction of forests. But it is not only the joy that every nature-lover feels for forests that should be taken into account. There…

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