I started working on an essay called "Three fundamental disagreements with the tradition", re Marxism. the three are fetishism, barbarism, cannibalism. More personal than theoretical, or sort of in-between.

So last night i got to reading the anthropology book from which Marx took the concept of fetishism for his famous commodity fetishism, Du cultes des dieux fétiches (1760) by Charles de Brosses, which is about black spirituality in West Africa. Wow, no surprises but it is a steaming pile of racist, white supremacist, colonialist trash... Such "anthropology" is inseparable from European slave traders in Africa, who coined the term, and their perspectives on Black spirituality and the Black societies they were dismantling through human pillage and trade. The irony is that that pillage plays a major role in the development of the wealth that will in Marx's time make the commodity-form so dominant in Europe's commercial centres. Understanding such a transition should be mandatory for any historical materialist...

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Marx 2026 / Contretemps vous invite à une journée de discussion le 13 juin à Paris

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Clara Mattei is so articulate, Im obsessed!

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OK, fedi.

I was listening to Maxine by Donald Fagen, and I realized, surely, without a doubt, someone has come up with the name Marxine. Right?

Or is it already a thing from way before Karl?

Boosts appreciated.

Marxine and Marximillian are both pretty funny. Marximillian sounds like some sort of Bourgeous anti-Bourgeois double agent.

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NOW PLAYING == Philosophy Talk Episode 597: #Marx and #Morality

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La importancia revolucionaria de Karl Marx

Mayo 5 es el aniversario n.º 208 del nacimiento del fundador del socialismo científico moderno, Karl Marx. Los comunistas alrededor del mundo marcaran este día celebrando y conmemorando su legado, y a nosotros los comunistas en Estados Unidos nos haría bien recordar sus contribuciones monumentales y evaluar lo que Marx nos tiene que decir hoy.

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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/la-importancia-revolucionaria-de-karl-marx