February 25, 2025 – The 13/13

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Guillaume Le Blanc | The meaning and scope of social discontent. An analysis of class warfare in Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

We’re living in a period that is both pre-revolutionary and counter-revolutionary at the same time. Instead of leading to a radical questioning of the political and economic foundations of our social order, social unrest is leading to a conservative revolution in which the people give new credence to a leader. How can this be explained? In a way, this was already Marx’s question: why did the people support Louis-Bonaparte? [Continue reading here….]

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Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra | On Marx’s Grundrisse and Toni Negri’s Marx Beyond Marx

For Toni Negri, Marx’s Grundrisse allowed him to address a double crisis of Marxism: a crisis of “official” Marxism, represented in Italy primarily by the theoreticians of the Italian Communist Party and the interpretations of Capital; and a crisis of the revolutionary workers movement and the entire set of liberation movements active at the time. [Continue reading here…]