The central concept of Marx’s contribution to a critical understanding of the capitalist economic system – the entry point into his distinctive analysis – is “the surplus.” Today’s show is devoted to ...

Nobody today denies that capitalism exploits nature. The disagreement is over why. Political theorist Alyssa Battistoni spoke to Jacobin about capitalism’s complex relationship to what economists once ...

We are living in strange times, the Financial Times: Marx analysed and explained insightfully how and why capitalism would succumb to recurrent crises, and especially big ones after a credit bust. He ...

As far as the United States is concerned, today’s Left is not only small, it’s also quite confused. Sure, there are debates regarding the conflict being fought in Ukraine and the wisdom of organizing ...

Five years ago it would have been unimaginable, but today there is a global movement convinced the world’s largest corporations are engaging in stealth warfare to transform liberal democracies into ...

They rarely begin with Marx’s critique of capital, the commodity, exploitation, class power or the state. They prefer to ...