Fighting Fascism - Clara Zetkin
“Fascism is the strongest, most concentrated, and classic expression at this time of the world bourgeoisie’s general offensive. It is urgent...
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Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women (Part 2 - New Forms of Capital Accumulation and Witch-Hunting in Our Time) - Silvia Federici
"We are witnessing an escalation of violence against women, especially African-descendant and Native-American women, because 'globalisation'...
Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women (Part 1 - Revisiting Capital Accumulation and the European Witch Hunt) - Silvia Federici
‘Every town has its witch, and every parish its trolls. We will keep them from life with the fire of joy.’ In the first of a two-part episod...
A Great Love (Part 1) - Alexandra Kollontai
“All she wanted was to stand between him and the world, relieve him of his worries, help him bear his cross.” This week we're collaborating...
Caliban and the Witch (Chapter 4 - The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe) - Silvia Federici
As we delve deepter into Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch' , we learn about the origins of the banning of reproductive sex and the d...
My Answer to an American Questionnaire - Pasha Angelina
“How did you become what you are, Pasha?” Praskovya Angelina, affectionately known as Pasha Angelina, takes issue with an American Encyclopa...
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter 3 - The Great Caliban: The Struggle Against The Rebel Body)
How were we transformed from humans into machines? In this third installement of Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and the Witch' we discuss 'Chapt...
Caliban and the Witch - Federici (Chapter 2 - The Accumulation of Labor and Degradation of Women)
In this incredibly dense chapter we take a deep dive into topics such as women's bodily autonomy, economic abuse, the weight placed on women...
Communism and the Family - Alexandra Kollontai
'Capitalism has placed a crushing burden on women's shoulders.' In this piece by one of the towering figures of the working-women's movement...
Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter I - All the World Needs a Jolt)
Women, the body and 'primitive accumulation'. In just the first chapter of this essential work, Silvia Federici wrestles with these topics,...
How Lenin Studied Marx - Nadezhda Krupskaya
"In moments of greatest difficulty and danger, when many stronger comrades lost heart and succumbed to doubt, Nadezhda Krupskaya remained al...
Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxemburg
Reform or Revolution? Why is one doomed to fail while the other is the only path capable of delivering us from capitalism and bringing about...
Capital #16 - Primitive Accumulation (ch. 26-33)
This time we learn how the enclosure of the commons, the centralisation of the land and the privatisation of the product of agricultural pro...
Capital #15 - The Process of Accumulation of Capital (ch. 23-25)
How do the rich become rich? In another wide-ranging episode we cover topics including how being rich leads to being richer, the tendency of...
Capital #14 - Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value; and Wages (ch. 16-22)
In this episode we're covering the two types of surplus-value and how they are produced; as well as wages, what they are and why we are paid...
Capital #13 Bonus
Like (almost) always, there's some bonus talk in this session. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at @prolesbookclub and shoot us a DM if you need...
Capital #13 - Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (Part 2 - ch. 15 continued)
More dialectics, more dualities. Machinery is wielded as a weapon against the working class. Marx shows us how machinery was not the great l...
Capital #12 - Bonus
In this bonus session we take a break from talking about books to talk about.. other books, and a couple of movies. Books mentioned: The Hob...
Capital #12 - Machinery and Large-Scale Industry (ch. 15)
Machinery makes things easier, but for who? This time we're talking about the development of machinery, the effects of machinery on the live...
Dialectical and Historical Materialism - Bonus
Stalin the eco-Marxist? Is China socialist? Some extra discussion on Stalin's 'Dialectical and Historical Materialism'. Enjoy! Follow us on...