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Following Part One, Mark Walsh now explores the impact of the metabolic rift over the 20th century, including how the drive of capitalist forms of agriculture and primary industry have led to species extinction, ecological collapse and the increased outbreaks of deadly epidemics. The development in 1909, by the German
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In contrast to the misconception that Marx and Engels were only concerned about economics, in this first of two articles, Mark Walsh highlights how they in fact had plenty to say about environmental degradation, focusing in particular on thier notion of a metabolic rift. “Let us not, however, flatter ourselves
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Clara Zetkin (1857 – 1933) is known to many as the founder of international women’s day, but she was not just a women’s rights activist. Clara was also an important Marxist thinker and as such, her aim was not simply to free women in order for them to compete
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Becca Bor explores the Marxist economic concept of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, for Rebel’s series on Marx 101. One of the central contradictions of capitalism is that economic crises are intrinsic to the system. There are some mainstream economists who claim that capitalism is
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were not only active revolutionaries, they were philosophers, sociologists, & historians. For the Revolutionaries Reviewed series, Paul le Blanc discusses the founders of Marxism & the core concepts they developed. Some people make a big point about separating Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from each
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This is the first of two articles by John Molyneux, based on his talk ‘The Future Of Marxism’ at Marxism 2018, which outlined a number of issues which Marxists need to address in the coming period. Part 1 raises the question of the changing nature of the working class. The