We are frequently asked by First Worldists why capitalists would hire workers who ‘are not exploited.’ Because the employment of high-wage workers in imperialist countries generates a profit for their employer, First Worldists reason, these employers must be exploiting their workers. Unfortunately, the line of reasoning fails to recognize the difference between the realization of […]
Category Archives: Political Economy
May
10
Surplus in Economic Systems
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One of the most fundamental aspects of society is its economics system, i.e. the mode of production. At the basic level, a mode of production is the means (physical objects) and social relations with which societies produce the material necessities for their existence. All societies must be sustained with food, clean water, shelter, etc. Attaining […]
April
19
Mini-Review and Commentary on Zak Cope’s ‘Divided World, Divided Class.’
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Divided World, Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism is the first full-length title in over a decade to feature a Third Worldist analysis of modern political economy. It was published in September 2012 by the independent publisher Kersplebledeb and has already been reviewed by several leftist writers, including Matthijus Krul, […]
April
15
RAIM: An Open Letter Against First Worldism in the ICM
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Bangla, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish translations included.
April
04
After Sorrow Comes Joy! Episode 6
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After Sorrow Comes Joy! is a Third Worldist podcast hosted by Nikolai Brown. This week: ‘An analysis of classes in modern society’ ‘What is to be done’ Beats: Lucifer- Lowkey Kids(Bukez Finezt Dubstep Bootleg)- MGMT What’s the Difference- Dr. Dre
Globalization: Inequality in the Global Plantation
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By Prince Kapone The current crisis of neoliberal capitalism has given rise to much resistance across the world, from the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S. to the political revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. As capitalist regimes everywhere impose austerity measures on their populations, reducing the capitalist state to nothing more […]
MIM(Prisons): Identifying the U.$. Lumpen Starts with Understanding the First World Petty Bourgeoisie
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By Soso of MIM(Prisons) MIM(Prisons) is working on a book about the lumpen in the internal semi-colonies of the United $tates. The first chapter, which we are circulating in draft form for peer review, focuses on identifying the lumpen and calculating the size of this group within U.$. borders. Part of this identification first requires […]
RAIM: Seize the Time # 4
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Right click, save, print, read, learn, distribute, smash imperialism!
Calculating the Value of Labor
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Contrary to popular ‘Marxist’ belief, the value of labor is not indeterminate. A simple equation dividing the total value produced in a given period by the total number of working hours reveals the value of labor. Unlike in Marx’s day when the total value produced in the world economy was unknown, today we can use […]
Matthijs Krul: Book Review: Zak Cope’s “Divided World Divided Class”
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There are times when one encounters a book that is frustrating in a way particular to the intellectual life: that is to say, when one encounters a book that is precisely the book one wanted to write. Given the relative obscurity of my interests, this does not happen often to me, but Zak Cope’s Divided World, […]
January
25
Editorial: Kasama inadvertently promotes capitalist road in Nepal
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The reformed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) recently held its seventh general convention. It was the first such event since it formally split from the revisionist Unified Communist Party of Nepal last summer. During and immediately after the convention, the CPN-Maoist vowed to carry forth a strategy of ‘people’s revolt.’ They also took the opportunity […]
January
14
New Third Worldist Webforum: R/peoplesliberation
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Comrades, Today is the opening day of the second semester of People’s Liberation University, a series of local and online study groups initiated by comrades associated with Anti-Imperialist.com. Along with the re-opening of PLU, we are pleased to announce that we creating an ‘open campus’ environment where anyone (with some obvious qualifications) can participate. The […]
December
20
Colonization and Housewifization (1986)
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This is chapter three from the book ‘Patriarchy and Capital Accumulation on a World Scale’ by Maria Mies. The following text will be part of the curriculum of the upcoming second semester of People’s Liberation Universit The Dialectics of ‘Progress and Retrogression’ On the basis of the foregoing analysis, it is possible to formulate a tentative thesis […]
December
18
Debt, Society, Morality and Imperialism
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This review of David Graeber’s 2011 book, Debt: the First 5,000 Years, was authored by Tony Norfeild and originally published at his website, Economics of Imperialism. As always, reposting here does not imply full agreement, endorsement, or affiliation. The main value of this book is to analyse debt as a social relationship, not simply as […]
December
07
MIM(Prisons) review of Divided World Divided Class
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It is with great pleasure that we announce a new release that MIM(Prisons) is adding to the labor aristocracy section of our must-read list. Divided World Divided Class by Zak Cope contributes up-to-date economic analysis and new historical analysis to the MIM line on the labor aristocracy. I actually flipped through the bibliography before reading the book […]
Commodification and democratization of bourgeois privilege vis–à–vis the expansion of personal services under imperialism
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Marx defined productive labor as that which produces surplus value. Under these conditions, laborers whose work does not produce surplus value for a capitalist are not exploited in any technical sense. Not so much Marx’s error, but that of whose who claim his legacy, is to conflate the realization of value with the production of […]
Review (Part 3 of 3): John Smith, “The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Capture.”
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Review (Part 3 of 3): John Smith, “The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Capture.” Monthly Review. July-August, 2012. p 86-102. In two earlier reviews, I focused on the notions of economic surplus and imperialist rent as specific categories within the capitalist-imperialist world-economy. The intent was manifold: first, to demonstrate the mechanisms through which wealth is […]
What is Maoism-Third Worldism?
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Maoism-Third Worldism is a theoretical culmination of historical revolutionary practice, a science of understanding the world so as to change it. It is the Marxism of today. Maoism-Third Worldism includes several historical and new paradigmatic shifts in understandings regarding class struggle. These include: All hitherto history is the history of class struggle! Maoism-Third Worldism reaffirms […]
The General Characteristics of Imperialism (c. 1997-2000)
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The following document was published by the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist and sourced from BannedThought.net. As always, reposting here is for educational and discussion purposes and does not imply endorsement, affiliation, or agreement. With the advent of monopolies, the question of what is capitalism and what is its nature began to be discussed. While Engels was aware of the […]
Review (Part 2 of 3): Samir Amin, “The Surplus in Monopoly Capitalism and the Imperialist Rent.” Monthly Review. Vol. 64 No. 3. July-August, 2012.
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Over the course of my work, I have inferred that the general rate of exploitation has increased along with the development and maturation of capitalist-imperialism, thus forestalling the tendency of the rate of profit to fall while allowing a minority First World section of the working class to have a ‘cut’ in imperialist superprofits and […]
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