For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis In this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult...

For more of our analysis, check out this video:

Europe’s olive oil supply running out after drought – and the odd hailstorm Heatwaves around Mediterranean have damaged harvests and forced producers to import from South America

As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se."

The food crisis is just starting.

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"The more bourgeois china is broken, the better fares the [fascist] Party, the more inextricably is the bourgeoisie tied to its protection racketeers and the more noiselessly it has to abdicate lever after lever of its economic power to the [fascist] Party." - Sohn-Rethel

Fascist forces begin as useful for liberal bourgeois rule in times of acute crisis. For a fascist state to emerge, these same forces must gain ahold of the state. Fascists are a bourgeois protection racket. Fascism is when the racket gets ahold of the books.

Decay: on fascism and breakdown Decay: on fascism and breakdown is a feature length Marxist documentary looking at 20th Century fascism, early English settler colonialism in the Americas an...

In light of the Canadian Parliament's applause for the Waffen SS, it's worth again reminding ourselves of what fascism is as a political and economic structure.

Marx and Nature | Approaching Marxism Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prolekultKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/prolekultApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marx...

In the seventh episode (and the second seriesish - new aesthetic), we discuss debates between the first and second waves of ecosocialism on Marx's view of nature, and the importance of understanding this today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...

Orthodoxy and Revisionism | Approaching Marxism Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...

In the sixth episode, we discuss the revisionist controversy in the German social democrat party. We then offer the lessons of this as a way to begin discussing problems in the contemporary communist movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_j...

Marx | Approaching Marxism Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...

In the fifth episode, we discuss how to approach Marx's life and work, the danger and necessity of canonisation, and the importance of developing both analytical and popular Marxist approaches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzo...

Class | Approaching Marxism Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...

In the fourth episode, we take a look at the concept of class in Marxism. We begin by highlighting that Marx never gave a definition of the concept, but only of concrete classes, then work backward to illustrate some elements of his view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN68...

Base and superstructure | Approaching Marxism Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...

Episode three looks at the "base-superstructure" framework used by Marx in his famous "Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy". It looks at many vulgar applications of this, and a recent intervention which outlines its limits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjR...

Modes of production | Approaching Marxism Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...

The second episode looks at the concept of a mode of production in Marx's work and Marxism more broadly. It gives an overview of the concept and a critique of common reductionist errors in its application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxV...

Approaching Marxism: introduction Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they h...

The first episode of the series gives an introduction to its overall purpose and the need for more detailed introductory materials within Marxism. This one is a very short primer on the general problems the series is intended to address! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-c...

Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since.

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I keep forgetting to watch this

And I would say the struggle for clean air in general is as important as the struggle for clean water

Against Segregation: approaching the British disabled peoples' movement Buy or read Judy Hunt's "No Limits" here: https://gmcdp.com/no-limitsAgainst Segregation: approaching the British disabled peoples' movement is a short, intr...

The struggle for clean indoor air is as important to disability justice as wheelchair accessibility. Those who wish to win the former need to learn from the latter's strategy. (Even as wheelchair accessibility still has a long way to go.)

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As we said in the last episode of Approaching Marxism, the next will look at Marx's theory of the metabolic rift.

Our upcoming film, For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction, is our priority at the moment, but keep your eyes peeled for lots more content on the environment!

Thank you comrade!

Marx and Nature | Approaching Marxism Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prolekultKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/prolekultApproaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marx...

Check out our latest video on the debates between first and second wave ecosocialism on Karl Marx's view of nature!

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...

Cereal crops decimated by Europe's heatwave The 2023 European cereal harvest is set to be its lowest since 2007, some 9.5% lower than the five-year average

Source on stats above: www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/cereal-crops-de...

For Bread: on capitalism's global food crisis In this short video, we give an overview of the fundamental factors driving the global food crisis. The piece looks at the way fertiliser has shaped agricult...

Southern European grain harvests are predicted to be 60% lower than last year, 9.5% lower than the five year average. Agricultural breakdown is not a future scenario; it is already happening.

Check out our video from last year for some background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYKFVXjQcU

"In the same way association also re-establishes, now on a rational basis, no longer mediated by serfdom, overlordship and the silly mysticism of property, the intimate ties of man with the earth, since the earth ceases to be an object of huckstering." - Marx

Image of a helmet, held by a metal hook. Text on image reads: "For Land: on the capitalist mass extinction TBA" ""In handicrafts and manufacture, the workman makes use of a tool, in the factory, the machine makes use of him. There the movements of the instrument of labour proceed from him, here it is the movements of the machine that he must follow. In manufacture the workmen are parts of a living mechanism. In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx"

"In the factory we have a lifeless mechanism independent of the workman, who becomes its mere living appendage." - Marx