by Ruy Mauro Marini Below we present Jorge M’s English translation of Ruy Mauro Marini’s Dialectics of Dependency, an important work in Latin American Marxism and overall theories of imperialism. Also included is a Postscript by Marini reflecting on the work and its arguments. In their analysis of Latin American dependency, Marxist researchers have generally […]
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Sorry for the long delay! Finally had a chance to wrap up and upload this episode but there will b more on the way soon! For this series, we’ve interviewed veterans from both the Soviet and Nato campaigns involved in Afghanistan. The focus of this series follows each veterans path to Afghanistan, their day to
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Ian Wright defends Marx’s theory of surplus-value and its claim that human labor is the ultimate cause of economic profit. In the topsy-turvy world of capitalist ideology, certain truths must be ignored or repressed because acknowledging them would weaken the rule of capital. One such truth is that human labor, and human labor alone, is the ultimate
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What does a Marxist theory of human psychology look like? Kyrill Potapov sheds light on this topic by showing how the works of Soviet thinkers like Lev Vygotsky and Evald Ilyenkov relate to more modern research on collective intentionality and niche construction. Soviet Marxist Lev Vygotsky, believing that psychology needed “its own Capital”1, took aim
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Amelia Davenport introduces a text by William Grey Walter introducing basic concepts of cybernetics. Introduction Though little known outside the narrow circles of cybernetics, neurology and robotics, American born British polymath William Grey Walter revolutionized our world. A prodigy from early childhood, he built wireless radios at the age of 9, before widespread radio broadcasting
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