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2014

The core fallacy of Leftist basic income schemesoriginal ↗
13 May 2014
Stranded on a dark, deserted road somewhere between reform and revolutionoriginal ↗
12 May 2014
Piketty is singing to our choiroriginal ↗
11 May 2014
“Karl Marx was right, but it doesn’t really matter.”original ↗
9 May 2014
Employment or Profit: The Left must decideoriginal ↗
7 May 2014
Three critical comments on Zoltan Zigedy’s critical reading of Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-first Century’original ↗
4 May 2014
Anselm Jappe and the end of the wertkritik school?original ↗
30 Apr 2014
Response to the critics of the term “fascist state”original ↗
28 Apr 2014
How the basic income scheme could become the Left’s worst nightmareoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2014
When Charles Murray met David Graeberoriginal ↗
25 Apr 2014
Simpleton economists and the “puzzle of secular stagnation”original ↗
21 Apr 2014
How John Weeks misunderstands neoliberalismoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2014
Response to David Graeber: If basic income is so good, why not start with the Koch Brothers?original ↗
18 Apr 2014
What does it take to beat capitalism when the deck is stacked against usoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2014
“How Capitalism Works” (through the eyes of the working class)original ↗
15 Apr 2014
The False Choices of Bourgeois Economic Policyoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2014
Yaffe and Bullock on the ‘Contradictory’ Role of the Stateoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2014
The Falling Rate of Profit, Class Struggle and the Stateoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2014
Open Marxism’s Unspoken Prescription for the Current Crisis: Vote Harderoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2014
Open Marxism and the “Benefit” of Longer Hours of Labor for the Working Classoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2014
“Open Marxism” and the Myth of the Class Struggleoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2014
Simon Clarke’s “The State Debate” and the puzzling case of the Boeing strikeoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2014
The World Market and the Illusion of the Nation-Stateoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2014
The State Debate 20 Years Later: How Aufheben Transcends Marx’s “Incoherent and Undeveloped” Theory of the Stateoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2014
Class Struggle and the Breakdown of Production Based on Exchange Valueoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2014
You can’t understand the state if you don’t understand capitaloriginal ↗
31 Mar 2014
A Brief Note on Simon Clarke’s “The State Debate”original ↗
29 Mar 2014
The Weird Netherworld of Barbarismoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2014
Notes on the essay, “The Logic of Gender”original ↗
24 Mar 2014
Superfluous labor and state debtoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2014
How superfluous labor time creates inflationoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2014
Why superfluous labor time is a really big problem for labor theoryoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2014
How does superfluous labor time alter the impact of labor hours reduction on profitsoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2014
How might a reduction of hours of labor affect profits?original ↗
23 Feb 2014
How do wages and prices respond to a reduction in hours of labor?original ↗
19 Feb 2014
What Borsch-Supan overlooked in his discussion of the economic impact of reducing hours of labororiginal ↗
17 Feb 2014
A simpler, more elegant, route to communismoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2014
“Proletarians are overwhelmingly women of color residing in postcolonial countries”original ↗
12 Feb 2014
Some (not so) final thoughts on privilege theory and Marxismoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2014
Notes on privilege theory’s critique of Marxism (5)original ↗
8 Feb 2014
Notes on privilege theory’s critique of Marxism (4)original ↗
6 Feb 2014
Notes on privilege theory’s critique of Marxism (3)original ↗
5 Feb 2014
Notes on privilege theory’s critique of Marxism (2)original ↗
3 Feb 2014
Notes on privilege theory’s critique of Marxism (1)original ↗
2 Feb 2014
Thesis on competition within the working classoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2014
There is no “American economy” anymore: The Left must act globallyoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2014
A brief note on bitcoin and labor theoryoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2014
Robert Kurz, David Graeber’s “Bullshit Jobs” and the collapse of capitalismoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2014
Chris Cutrone’s masterful take down of post-war Marxismoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2014
“The real fruit of their battles …”original ↗
15 Jan 2014
“The consciousness of the necessity of a fundamental revolution …”original ↗
14 Jan 2014
Proletarian Class Consciousness and Social Emancipationoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2014
Reformist Reforms, Revolutionary Reforms and Capitalismoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2014
The Left needs to take a timeoutoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2014
20 questions from comrades on capital and class struggleoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2014
Five Economic Reforms Millennials Should Eye Suspiciouslyoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2014
UBI and the ‘Radical Transformation of Society’: Some questions for Peter Fraseoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2014
I did an interview with KBOOoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2014
Chris Cutrone’s Pessimism and the Prospects of Social Emancipationoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2014
Marxian Hipsters, Old Skool Marxists and the Abstract and Fetishized Notions of Social Emancipationoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2014

2013

Looking for a few New Year’s resolutions? Here are some suggestions for 2014original ↗
31 Dec 2013
The abolition of labor and the conceit of labor theoristsoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2013
The oddest political expression of the crisis this yearoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2013
Chris Wright and Wertkritik: Giving away the farm?original ↗
26 Dec 2013
A Question for the Wertkritik School: Does the commodity even still exist?original ↗
24 Dec 2013
What if there is no such thing as a socialist “economy”?original ↗
23 Dec 2013
Wertkritik and The State: “It’s complicated”original ↗
22 Dec 2013
Jaime Semprun rejects the Manifesto — hilarity ensuesoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 10: The utopian character of “the politics of work”original ↗
19 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 9: The paradox of Left politicsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 8: Self-organization or the fight against austerity?original ↗
14 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 7: “The politics of work and the broader project of social emancipation”original ↗
12 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 6: Is there a concrete demand for the immediate abolition of wage labor?original ↗
11 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 5: Overwork, unemployment and the stateoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 4: The Great Depression, the Left and the Politics of Workoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 3: Overwork and unemploymentoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2013
Platypus Question No. 2: Is the distinction between “work” and “labor” politically relevant?original ↗
7 Dec 2013
Ten Questions from Platypus on the Politics of Work: A responseoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2013
“Secular Stagnation” and capitalist destruction of the productive forcesoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2013
Crying Wolf over Deflationoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2013
Looking for an Exit from the Crisisoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2013
Decoding the Ideological Bullshit of a Bourgeois Simpleton (Part 2)original ↗
25 Nov 2013
Decoding the Ideological Bullshit of a Bourgeois Simpletonoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2013
The future does not, in any way, belong to the wage laboreroriginal ↗
16 Nov 2013
Does New Keynesian Theory Confirm Marx?original ↗
10 Nov 2013
Some thoughts on Michael Roberts’ North Star essay on the crisisoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2013
Everything you think you know about fascist state deficit spending is wrong (2)original ↗
4 Nov 2013
Everything you think you know about fascist state deficit spending is wrongoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2013
How Monthly Review Published a Scholarly Essay Fundamentally Revising Marx’s Argumentoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2013
The Unmaking of Labor Theory by Michael Heinrich, Andrew Kliman et al.original ↗
24 Oct 2013
‘Marxist Economists’ and Simpleton Trollsoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2013
Andrew Kliman on David Graeber and The “Post-Work” Societyoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2013
Really, I am done with the Leftoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2013
Food stamp socialism or communism?original ↗
13 Oct 2013
Are state deficits “necessary”?original ↗
12 Oct 2013
Thinking the Unthinkable on the Shutdownoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2013
Is the partial shutdown of the federal government a “manufactured crisis?”original ↗
5 Oct 2013
IT AIN’T YOUR FUCKING STATE: So stop whining about the GOP shutting Washington down!original ↗
2 Oct 2013
Wolff: You see communism is just like capitalism except its Christmas Eve all the timeoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
Bernanke’s ‘Septaper’ Debacleoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
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