Marxist theory has largely abandoned the flawed concept 'mode of production,' leading to a tendency to naturalize capitalist categories and dilute its radical edge. This article argues that a refined notion of the mode of production, focusing on human production and materialism, shows that capitalism—especially industrial capitalism—is more historically tied to chattel slavery than widely believed

Abstract: Marxist theory has by now largely abandoned the (seriously flawed) notion of the ‘mode of production’, but doing so has only encouraged a trend to abandon much of what was radical about it and naturalize capitalist categories.

A Handbook of Economic
Anthropology, Chapter 27.

This article examines the role of values in the political discourse of the last decade in the US. It embarks from what many observers had described as a puzzle: the fact that significant parts of the American working class voted against their economic interests but in line with what they perceived to be their values.

Die Türkei hat die Kampfzone in Syrien nach Westen verlagert, nach Afrin, bis dahin eine Insel des Friedens

Es besteht kein Zweifel daran, dass die ethnischen Säuberungen, die auf türkische Streitkräfte und die mit ihnen verbündeten islamistischen Milizen zurückgehen, als Kriegsverbrechen einzustufen sind.

The single most dramatic moment of the protests in Quebec came on the first day of the summit, when the thousands of protesters who had marched through the city finally reached ​“the wall.”

My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a moun- tain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass, twist about in every possible direction, and then leap to the next stalk and do the same thing.

I spent 15 hours handcuffed on a bus with 44 other people, all charged with a crime that everyone, including the police, knew perfectly well we did not commit.