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2022-02-14: News Headlines

Editor (2022-02-14). 'Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature', by: Kaan Kangal. mronline.org Friedrich Engels' Dialectics of Nature has been arguably the most polemic 'book' within the corpus of classical Marxist literature.

_____ (2022-02-13). Class Struggle And Freedom Beyond Colonial Borders. popularresistance.org The global COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how truly interconnected our world is, how superficial colonial borders are, and thus how the struggle for freedom must link localized organizing to broader global insurgencies. Of course, this is not new. Though our epoch offers unique challenges, problems, and articulations of the dialectic between repression and resistance, history doesn't repeat itself—but it rhymes. | In a world structured by racial capitalism, white supremacy, and imperialism, Blackness has often been the antithesis of freedom. After legal emancipation from racial slavery, fre…

Robert Kurz (2022-02-13). Interview on The Black Book of Capitalism. indybay.org The book is: 1) a history of the three great industrial revolutions (introduction of the manufacturing system with the steam engine at the beginning of the 19th century, Fordist "self-mobilization" with the assembly line and the rationalization of the corporate economy during the first half of the 20th century, and the microelectronic revolution.

_____ (2022-02-13). America's Real Adversaries Are Its European And Other Allies. popularresistance.org The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and '50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe — to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today's sanctions regime is aimed inward, to prevent America's NATO and other Western allies from opening up more trade and investment with Russia and China. The aim is not so much to isolate Russia and China as to hold these allies firmly within America's own economic orbit. Allies are to forego the benefits of importing Russian gas and Chinese products, buying much higher-priced U.S. LNG and other exports, capped by more U.S. arms. | The sanctions…

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