Beyond Capital/Labor: Expanding Class Struggle in the Technocapitalist and Neocolonial Era
#ClassStruggle is no longer limited to the #CapitalLabor opposition. #Proletarianization of #knowledge, #TechnicalDomination, new #ManagerialClasses, and #Neocolonialism require us to rethink our #analyses. #Marx #postMarxism #technology #centralization #WorldSystems #decolonial #KnowledgeProletarianization Class struggle, a central concept of Marxism, has long focused on the…
We call the wealthy The Elite, which is a horrifically inaccurate name as they are not better than anyone else and are in many ways worse. What should we call them instead?
#ClassStruggle #Trump #Epstein #Wealth #Poverty #WritersCoffeeClub #PennedPossibilities
"n his memoir, A Life Beyond Boundaries, the political scientist Benedict Anderson referred to his “more intelligent, slightly younger” brother. He had reason to be proud too. Perry Anderson was well known for his writings on the modern state, while Benedict was celebrated for his writings on nationalism.
Their chosen fields reflected their life experiences. As children, their lives were regularly uprooted, moving from China to California, Colorado, and Ireland, before they won scholarships to Eton, the famous English boarding school. They felt like outsiders. As adults, detachment served them well in studying those political constructs — states and nations — that usually instill sentiments of devotion and belonging in their peoples.
At Eton, the Anderson brothers were looked down upon by their wealthy contemporaries. Yet they and other scholarship-funded students also looked down upon their wealthy peers. Both groups were “snobbish,” as Benedict put it, though perhaps not equally so, given the social freedoms afforded to the ultrawealthy.
At home over breaks and in the summer, Perry Anderson read for hour after hour. There was time enough for all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Later Anderson’s own writings would take on a similarly ambitious scale. He studied big ideas over centuries and continents.
Commentaries on Anderson sometimes describe his style of writing as “Olympian.” He used the terms “complex totality” and “totalization” to characterize what he was seeking to do. However we phrase it, it is clear that Anderson from a young age sought to understand history in terms of the interconnections, whether harmonious or conflictual, among the various parts of the whole. Furthermore Anderson believed history should be useful for activists in his own time."
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/perry-anderson-state-capitalism-history
A recent study shows elite political discourse in Western democracies is getting more toxic — especially around migration, LGBTQ+ rights, and identity.
Ironically, toxicity drops during elections. That’s how normalized it’s become.
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22411
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #CultureWar #ElonMusk #ToxicPolitics #PoliticalDecay #LGBTQ #ClassStruggle
✊ “Mamdani’s campaign is up against capitalist headwinds — but with class struggle, we can win our demands.”
All of the left needs to show solidarity with Zohran Mamdani.
This fight isn’t just about what we want — it’s about what we need.
#Solidarity #ClassStruggle #Socialism #LeftUnity #Mamdani #Organize #DSA #NYPolitics
Now imagine what the #workingclass could do if we stole, like, a dozen of these tanks...
#Revolution2025 #ClassWar #ClassStruggle #Socialism
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This was obviously inspired by the historical persecution of Jewish people, but could just as easily apply to critics of Zionism within the Jewish community today, or LGBT people in Trump's USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh7d-g_uVMg&list=RDwh7d-g_uVMg
#DanielKahn #InnerEmigration #zionism #bundism #Doikayt #persecution #resistance #classstruggle #culture #klezmer #folkpunk #jewishpunk #punk
Thing is, you actually need to make them fear for their lives & their safety.
#ClassWar & #revolution is not a war of words or #litigation, #law, #policy etc.
It is won with violence.
#Revolution2025 #ClassWar #ClassStruggle #Socialism #Marxism #Anarchism #ICEout #AntiFa #AntiFascism
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#Revolution2025 #ClassWar #ClassStruggle #Socialism #Marxism #Anarchism #ICEout #AntiFa #AntiFascism #AntiCapitalism
"[W]hile "IP" can be bought and sold by the capital classes, process knowledge is inseparably vested in the minds and muscle-memory of their workers. People who own the instructions are constitutionally prone to assuming that making the recipe is the important part, while following the recipe is donkey-work you can assign to any freestanding oaf who can take instruction.
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he exaltation of "IP" over process knowledge is part of the ancient practice of bosses denigrating their workers' contribution to the bottom line. It's key to the myth that workers can be replaced by AI: an AI can consume all the "IP" produced by workers, but it doesn't have their process knowledge. It can't, because process knowledge is embodied and enmeshed, it is relational and physical. It doesn't appear in training data.
In other words, elevating "IP" over process knowledge is a form of class war. And now that the world's store of process knowledge has been sent to the global south, the class war has gone racial.
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Bosses would love it if process knowledge didn't matter, because then workers could finally be tamed by industry. We could just move the "IP" around to the highest bidders with the cheapest workforces. But Wang's book makes a forceful argument that it's easier to build up a powerful, resilient society based on process knowledge than it is to do so with IP. What good is a bunch of really cool recipes if no one can follow them?
I think that bosses are, psychoanalytically speaking, haunted by the idea that their workers own the process knowledge that is at the heart of their profits. That's why bosses are so obsessed with noncompete "agreements." If you can't own your workers' expertise, then you must own your workers..."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/08/process-knowledge/#dance-monkey-dance
#IP #ProcessKnowledge #Capitalism #ClassStruggle #LabourStruggle
I'm not trying to turn your kids rule
#Revolution isn't won by following your oppressors rules. #ClasWar #ClassStruggle #Revolution2025 #Socialism #Communism #Anarchism #Marx
This is the news we need. Workets in the Italian Docks refuse to keep things running "as normal" while a genocide is being protrayed.
What we need is the news about our movements, workers organisations, our initiatives and us putting our foot down. Let our workers organisations be inspired. Its the next step after all the large marges all over the world. Our true power lies in shutting down the logistics of #capitalism and #war.
#Genocide in #Palestine is #ClassWar & #ClassStruggle. #Israel / #Gaza is merely a show room for the military industrial complex & their #WMD 's. Once protecting lives is no longer cost-effective, #Capitalism will turn to mass murder to maintain profits. This is what's happening in #Palestine.
Reflecting this Labor Day that Palestine is a class struggle!
@alx reminds us "While politicians hide behind words of 'concern', hope is in the workers"
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https://mastodon.design/@alx/115125139927038664
#solidarity #classstruggle #workersolidarity #laborday #freepalestine
Joe Burn's book #ClassStruggle Unionism is a wake-up called for the #labor #movement. He argues only rank-n-file militancy & an enthusiastic pro #strike orientation can empower the #WorkingClass to eliminate billionaires. Since US labor law is so anti-union, only worker #militancy that is willing to break the law can win. This involves fighting injunctions, #solidarity strikes, & ignoring #union bosses. I think he's right. And this means that only an unruly, #radical movement can win.
The 1937 #Oshawa GM #strike and radical #industrial unionism reshaped labour: Union membership in the US grew from less than three million in 1933 to almost 15 million by 1945. Union density reached a record overall low of 9.9 percent in 2024, and only 5.9 percent in the private sector. In Canada, union density has declined to 30 percent of the overall workforce.
https://portside.org/2025-08-24/class-struggle-unionism-auto-workers-reds-and-1930s
#autoworkers #Canada #classstruggle #labourmovement #organize #Solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory
"Then when I got involved in the National Union of Students I realised that I wasn’t the only one who felt this way. That’s a really magical moment, when you discover that you’re not alone in your politics."
"If we’re contesting state power, we’re going to face a major backlash, and we need to have the institutional resilience to withstand it. […] The overall party structure has to be unitary."
An interview with Zarah Sultana: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-alternative
#materialPolitics #campaigning #antiRacism #communityOrganizing #materialism #YourParty #UKPol #UKPolitics #Britain #GreatBritain #uk #England #Scotland #Wales #antiZionism #proZionism #militant #ZarahSultana #militants #Sultana #elections #TheLeft #socialists #socialism #politicalEducation #classStruggle #joy
