Capitalist State

Article by the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Bierdermann for May Day in 1927. Originally published in "Der Proletarier, May 1927, No. 4/5".

Conclusion from Melinda Cooper's 2024 book Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Melinda Cooper engages with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and argues (contra most Marxists) that the limits to wealth creation are political not technical. Cooper argues that radicals cannot avoid a confrontation with the politics of money and collectivized debt default may be a method by which the neoliberal…

Very short article by the International Communist Party for Working Women's Day 2024

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This week, world leaders and corporate royalty descend on Davos for their annual forum on 'solving global challenges' – but the biggest problem the world faces is them.

This is the second in a series of articles by Matt Crossin, 'Critical Notes on Developments in the Anarchist Movement'. Published on 25 July 2022.

A short article on POUM dissident Josep Rebull, his views and actions during the May Days and relations with sections of the anarchist movement.

List of objects and methods of the left-communist Communist Workers' Party, appearing in the 11 February 1922 issue of the Workers' Dreadnought. Pankhurst founded the Communist Workers' Party as the British counterpart to the Kommunistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands (KAPD) following her expulsion from the Communist Party of Great Britain in September 1921 and her break with Lenin and the Russian Communist Party.

Published in 2021, Ilias Alami provides a theory of the capitalist state that allows for current varieties of state capitalism. The ideas here have been expanded in The Problématique of State Capitalism as part of the book The Spectre of State Capitalism with Adam D Dixon (2023) available via Open Access here.

A very short article from the KAPD Berlin critiquing Trade Unions for being the bearers and transmission belts of legal-fetishism. Originally published in the "Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung", Organ of the KAPD, 9th year, 1928, No. 4, January

Agnoli's article expands on the false separation of the politics and economics, and the subsumption of the political to economic accumulation and need to go beyond both. The Market, the State, and the End of History translated for a book called The Politics of Change: Globalization, Ideology and Critique by Open Marxists Werner Bonefeld, Kosmas Psychopedis released in 2000. The full book is available here.

Comrade Motopu on the potential pitfalls when the Left looks to the Right for allies.

An anarchist communist analysis of the political economy of the Soviet Union. Originally published on anarchistworker.substack.com

https://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/internationalist-manifesto-against-capitalist-war-and-peace-in-ukraine/

Leon Trotsky: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (1909)

Wildcat's 1989 introduction to Herman Gorter's "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin".

Originally published in "Kommunistische Arbeiter-Zeitung", Organ of the KAPD, 7th Year, July 1926, No. 35. Taken from Antonie Pannekoek Archives [AAAP]

Why wars are not always won by the wealthiest country

The rise of a new far-right current in Greece, emerging over the past 15 years, reflects broader global tendencies toward reactionary politics. In Greece, this current was formed as the result of the convergence of far-right formations with segments of the patriotic left, starting with the nationalist/populist tendency within the movement against the Memoranda austerity measures, the nationalist opposition to the…

A conversation with Melinda Cooper about the recent history of neoliberalism and her new book Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance.