Indigenous Knowledge and Democratic Eco-socialism
By Andrew Bennie and Sinegugu Zukulu As Pablo Solón (2018) has shown, emancipatory discourses like the Rights of Mother Earth are often constituted by different streams of thought and action.…
Ecosocialism in One Country? Reflections on scale and nation in the Just Transition
By Janet Cherry The Southern African region has borders, but nature does not acknowledge these borders. All human societies in the region are dependent on what nature provides. The…
Decolonial and eco-socialist principles to respond to the climate crisis
By Tara Nair van Ryneveld 1. Why do we need both a decolonial and eco-socialist response to the converging crises? The climate crisis requires a multifaceted response. Climate change was…
Public Health Care and Democratic Eco-socialism
"Medicare for All Rally" by mollyktadams By Natalya Dinat Universal health care is a hard-fought right Health care services are embedded in the political economy of the state and reflect…
Ecosocialist Electricity? Just Transition or Neo-Luddite Revolution
Image by Thomas from Pixabay By Tony Martel Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole…
The water commons, small-scale farming and democratic eco-socialism
By Matthew Wingfield The extractive logic of capitalism, grounded in South Africa in 1652, has led to centuries of dispossession intertwined with…
Happiness, Degrowth and Democratic Eco-socialism
Image by Stephen Melkisethian from nnirr.org By Devan Pillay During the 1970s, the King of Bhutan, a small…
Dossier “System Change through Democratic Eco-Socialism”. An introduction
CJCM-Launch Conference (October 2022) By Hauke Neddermann In today's multidimensional crisis, it is becoming ever more apparent that capitalist production continues to undermine, in the words of Marx, “the original…
New world dis/orders: the shifting role of Israel and the decline of U.S hegemony in the Middle East
Saudi - China - Iran - Source: stimson.org By Shir Hever This text is based on the author’s contribution to the panel discussion held at the last International InkriT Conference…
First Marxist Spring School of the Berlin Institute for Critical Theory 2023 (InkriT e.V.)
Following the 25th International InkriT Conference on 05/18–05/21/23, the first Marxist Spring School “Beyond the Horizon(s): Marxism on Sexual Fantasies, Drugs, and Eurocentrism” will take place in Berlin from 05/23–05/25/23.…
The non-capitalist path
Image by Alexander Klepnev Samir Amin’s short essay on ‘the non-capitalist path’ (La voie non capitaliste), published here for the first time, will form the basis for the entry of…
The Robinsonade and Capitalist Modernity: a Historical-Critical Approach to the Enduring “Myth” of Robinson Crusoe
Lithography by Wal Paget (1891). Source: https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/paget/69.html (image scanned by Philip V. Allingham) By Martín Koval Robinson Crusoe, the castaway who reproduces Western civilisation with the help of nothing but his…
Feminist irruptions in Marxism. About the publication of the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism-Feminism in Spanish.
By Ana Miranda Mora The term Marxism-Feminism brings together the history of women’s, or feminist, movements and their alliances and disagreements with the workers' movements, as well as a set…
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez: Marxism and the Philosophy of Praxis
Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez's Unified Socialist Youth Membership Card (1932) By Diana FuentesAdolfo Sánchez Vázquez (1905-2011) was the most distinguished Spanish Marxist to seek exile in Mexico. Philosopher, poet, translator and…
Walter Benjamin and “the feminine”: a survey departing from Bertolt Brecht’s Die Mutter
Konstantin Baehrens
Pétroleuses
Le Monde illustré. 1871-04-08 (Source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France) April 1871, the Paris Commune, “a new power that was truly democratic” (Engels, MEW 22/198), is in…