AI developers warn about its dangers but keep on developing it, showing they are prisoners of its fetish. This essay examines the fetish as ideology and as real social relationships dialectically inverting subject and object, and at the same time provoking revolt.
Considering ‘Life Activity’ as one of Marx’s most important concepts, contrasted with Hegel’s concept of labor, the author shows how to Marx it mediates the relationship between humanity and nature, and its connection to history of class struggles toward overcoming alienation and establishing new forms of freedom.
Buddy Bell traces the impact AI is having on workers and natural resources. The AI industry’s contradictions highlight the need to transform how technology is developed so that it will align with a philosophy of humanism.
Traducción al español de Essay “Iran—a country of revolutionaries” by Terry Moon.
The essay traces the recent massive revolt in Iran, highlighting the importance of the thoughts of the participants, Iran’s revolutionary history, and the role of a philosophy of revolution and the people’s confidence in their own ideas.
Muhammad Adel Zaky argues that neoclassical economics aims to produce knowledge devoid of humanity, conflict, or memory. Schools and universities have become a theater of indoctrination. To liberate political economy and education from this prison is a civilizational emergency.
The climate crisis, biodiversity, food, water, and human health are so closely linked that efforts to address one without taking the others into account often backfire. This finding from scientists reflects their hearing climate justice movements.
Facing Trumpist attack on public schools, teacher Susan van Gelder traces history of the struggle in the U.S. for free education, from Reconstruction to the present. She highlights what we must fight for and the forces of retrogression.
This essay explores Marx’s Idea of Absolute Freedom as the foundation for overcoming today’s retrogression. Marx’s view of labor as “the prime necessity of life” connects with his whole dialectical view. The essay explores Dunayevskaya’s reading of this passage, and criticizes partial outlooks.
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