A speech by Ian Angus, June 2013 suggestions include (as the last one) : " closing down all military operations at home and elsewhere; transforming the armed forces into voluntary teams charged with restoring ecosystems and assisting the victims of environmental disasters." "There is a giant death sentence hanging over much of our world, and capitalism is the executioner. That’s why Climate & Capitalism rewrote Rosa Luxemburg’s famous warning, to say that humanity must choose between ecosocialism and barbarism. And that’s also why, in the 21st century, socialists must be ecosocialists, and humanity needs an ecosocialist revolution."
Vivek Chibber, author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital: "A typical maneuver of postcolonial theorists is to say something like this: Marxism relies on abstract, universalizing categories. But for these categories to have traction, reality should look exactly like the abstract descriptions of capital, of workers, of the state, etc. But, say the postcolonial theorists, reality is so much more diverse. Workers wear such colorful clothes; they say prayers while working; capitalists consult astrologers — this doesn’t look like anything what Marx describes in Capital. So it must mean that the categories of capital aren’t really applicable here." "I am endorsing the view that there are some common interests and needs that people have across cultures."
The utilitarian, competitive ethic he now saw as the ethic of Cain; he always known that it murdered art, he had come to understand that it murdered man's dignity as a creator in his daily labour, he now discovered that it could murder mankind. He spoke in a lecture of 'the strength of that tremendous organisation under which we live .... Rather than lose anything which really is its essence, it will pull the roof of the world down upon its head'. He was consumed with the urgency of the socialist propaganda. If capitalism were not to be displaced by a clear-sighted constructive revolutionary movement, if it were to end in mere deadlock and blind insurrection, then 'the end, the fall of Europe, may be long in coming, but when it does, it will be far more terrible, far more confused and full of suffering than the period of the fall of Rome'.
By Frederick ENgels Written in January 1844 Published in the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, 1844 ONLINE VERSION: Reprinted according to the journal. First published in English in the Collected Works, translation by Christopher Upward. Transcribed for the Internet by director@marx.org (February 6 1996).
Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels Recension av Thomas Carlyle, "Sista pamfletter" 1850 Publicerat: I "Revue der Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung", häfte 4, i april 1850. Källa: Marx Engels Werke bd VII, s. 255ff; "Rezensionen aus der »Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung. Politisch-ökonomische Revue«. Viertes Heft". Översättning: Hans Granlid
Joan Martínez Alier: "President Rafael Correa of Ecuador asks when and where Marx criticizes mega-mining...[...] But what would Marx have said of mega-mining and the ideas of President Correa?" "... there are concepts in Marx that the arrogance mixed with ignorance of President Correa have caused him to forget."
Pekka Mäkelä. Introduction to Consolidative Consumption Hyödykkeiden tuotannossa tavoitteena on jatkuvasti parantaa tuottavuutta. Tässä tarkoituksessa tuotantovälineiden käyttöaste pyritään pitämään mahdollisimman korkeana. Yleisesti hyväksytyn käsityksen mukaan kulutustavaroiden ja palvelujen varsinainen tarkoitus on tuottaa hyvinvointia niiden käyttäjille. Hyödykkeiden eli kulutusvälineiden käyttöaste on kuitenkin jäänyt alhaiseksi. Kuluttajiksi määritettyjen kansalaisten moraaliseksi velvollisuudeksi on asetettu käyttökelpoistenkin tavaroiden sysääminen syrjään alati muuntuvien uutuuksien tieltä. The possibility of change assumes, in my opinion, practices carried out in the spirit of concrete utopia as presented by Ernst Bloch. For the development of such practices, the group representing consumers calling out for a change needs a theory of critical praxis. My conclusion, in sum, is to propose an updating of the key concepts of economy from the perspective of consumption. Not just consumption but economy as a whole needs to be reconceptualized.
New Statesman 17 April 2013 by Slavoj Zizek What we need today is a Thatcher of the left: a leader who would repeat Thatcher’s gesture in the opposite direction, transforming the entire field of presuppositions shared by today’s political elite.
On May 30, 1814 (julian calendar May 18), Russian revolutionary and philosopher Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was born. Although many scholars argue if he is the founder of anarchist theory in general, he was the leading theorist of collectivist anarchism.
E. Marx, M. Valli, J. da Silva e Silva, S. Tiwari, и P. do Carmo. Joint Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation From Text and the First International BiKE Challenge co-located with 20th Extended Semantic Conference (ESWC 2023), (2023)
N. Arndt, A. Langer, M. Martin, и S. Tramp. INFORMATIK 2017, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), стр. 1863. Bonn, Germany, Gesellschaft für Informatik, (сентября 2017)