Toward a Concrete Class Analysis of the United States
By Freya B. As Samir Amin aptly notes in his critique of Hardt and Negri’s Empire, in periods of unrest and confusion following the defeat of revolutionary movements, there is a tendency for theories...
View ArticleGauging the contribution of Third World labor to imperialist economies
Class analysis is a central component of Marxist thinking. Knowing who our enemies and friends are is imperative if we communists are to move forward into the 21st century. An important aspect of class...
View ArticleMachines, Productivity, and Profit
One of the most commonly-heard terms in the bourgeois economics departments is “productivity.” The vulgar economists of course define “productivity” as the price of output relative to the price of...
View ArticleSummary and Review: “Marx’s Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals” by Howard...
By Freya B. Marx’s theory of price has been a contentious subject over the history of Marxist political economy. Controversy over Marx’s formulation on “prices of production” has led many to try to...
View ArticleOn the Social Construction of Sex (Part 1)
Bourgeois ideology has long presented us with a vulgar conception of gender which reduces the essence of what it “means” to be a man or woman to a rigid set of biological characteristics. Over the past...
View ArticleAustralia’s Genocidal Campaign Against People of the Pacific and Middle East
Last Friday (February 28), video was released showing the aftermath of an “incident” in which Australian forces on Manus Island, home to one of Australia’s concentration camps for asylum-seekers,...
View ArticleChina: Socialism and Imperialism
This is the first of a multi-part series on China’s transition from socialism, to capitalism, and to its current state as a fledgling imperialist power. It is popular in certain Marxist circles today...
View ArticlePoints of Unity and Difference regarding Global People’s War
In two major articles already on anti-imperialism.com, we have defined in a preliminary way how we conceive of Global People’s War, and what we consider to be the basic role of revolutionaries in...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About “Consent”
TRIGGER WARNING: the following article contains a frank discussion of rape. We feel this issue is of great importance, but it may cause some readers distress. By Freya B. The concept of “consent,” as...
View ArticleThoughts on inflation and the “real wage,” from a Marxist perspective
By Freya B. You’ve probably heard the statistic that the minimum wage today in the united states is worth significantly less than it was in decades past. Although the minimum wage in the u.s. has...
View ArticleWhat Does a Marxist Mean by “Material”?
By Freya B. If there is anything that can be identified as “Marxism,” it is the Marxist method, both in theoretical and political practice. On the level of theory, this Marxist method is dialectical...
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