A New Institute for Social Research

So exciting to see a translation of this!!!

‘On the Concept of Right’ in Turkish — thank you Heimatlos Kolektif for the translation!

Merci pour cette traduction!

"Mattick truly believed that the emancipation of the working class must be the task of the workers themselves." Very excited this is finally seeing the light of day! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this!

"The higher the hopes, the brighter the flash of possibility, the harder the comedown."

“The answer to the question of the purpose of the theory of value is quite different for the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie asks about the prices of commodities, the proletariat about the organisation of society.” Anton Pannekoek

After a long, long hiatus, we finally published a new thing. "Schools train nasty, cowed, imbecilic scavengers to fight for scraps." Enjoy!!

Good article on Hegel as a critic of instrumental reason, countering the tendency to dismiss the Frankfurt school's concept as of purely Weberian origin academia.edu/43302795/Hegel_…

Mattick telling it like it is: "There is in fact only one resolution to the problem—more properly, the social system—of exploitation, racism, war, inequality, and public corruption that Israel shares with every other nation of sufficient weight: the no-state solution."

This rocks. Inevitable philosophical & terminological quibbles aside, of the best analyses we’ve read of last summer’s uprising, and the leftist quagmire it died in.

Unfortunately, though unsurprisingly, very true. Guérin's own underappreciated work, insisting that universal polymorphous-erotic liberation & the abolition of the gender binary are essential to communist revolution, remains a potent retort to the repressed & repressive left.

Excellent thread.

What Shemon says here of racialization is true, mutatis mutandis, of gender, sex, sexuality, nationality... and class. Everything must go. The feud between identity-politicians and socdem class-politicians is a red herring— the real split is between self-abolition and affirmation

Absolutely correct. And such a reconstruction has to be able to, on the basis of value theory, account for *why* at a certain point in the trajectory of accumulation money ceased to be a commodity, & the profound structural crisis of the mode of production this shift represents.