"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
This review of Capital, Volume II is the second installment in our Weaponized Intellects reconstruction of Marx’s trilogy. If you haven’t read the first review—where we follow Marx from the commodity to surplus-value, machinery, accumulation, and the so-called primitive accumulation—start there: Capital as Crime Scene: How Marx Dissects the Social Machinery of Exploitation . Time... Continue Reading →
In his 1891 Introduction to The Civil War in France, Frederick Engels reloaded the most dangerous weapon the working class has ever forged: the truth that the state must be smashed, not reformed. Drawing on the blood-soaked memory of the Paris Commune, Engels warned that the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a slogan but... Continue Reading →
In The Civil War in France, Karl Marx did not romanticize revolution—he studied it, dissected it, and returned its lessons to the working class as weapons. From the smashing of the bourgeois state to the early contours of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Paris Commune revealed the shape of worker power in embryo. This... Continue Reading →
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