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Critisticuffs 🐱😷 @critisticuffs

We claim modern misery ultimately is the result of the capitalist economy, the nation-state watching over it and the wrong ideas people have about them.

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Our recent text on the UK National Security Strategy, now available in a choice of languages.
Gruppen gegen Kapital und Nation@gegner_in
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Wenn ein Politiker nationale Einheit von denen fordert, die er regiert, ist dies die Ankündigung, dass die privaten Interessen dieser Leute sich dem Projekt der Nation, wie es von der Regierung definiert wird, auf eine neue Art und Weise unterordnen müssen. So macht es Keir /1
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CEOs get what they deserve. New text: critisticuffs.org/texts/ceos…
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Gruppen gegen Kapital und Nation@gegner_in
Jun 1
Wenn ein Politiker nationale Einheit von denen fordert, die er regiert, ist dies die Ankündigung, dass die privaten Interessen dieser Leute sich dem Projekt der Nation, wie es von der Regierung definiert wird, auf eine neue Art und Weise unterordnen müssen. So macht es Keir /1
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We have a new text - 'What the coming slaughter is for: as explained by the UK National Security Strategy 2025' critisticuffs.org/texts/what…
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We are starting a Marx Capital Vol 1 reading group in Glasgow in the new year. We'll meet weekly, and we will read it together at a slow pace, to allow everyone to be on the same page.
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A German-language version of our text on Trump's upending of the post-war rules-based American world order, from our friends in Gruppen gegen Kapital und Nation. For the monoglots: critisticuffs.org/texts/peac…

Gruppen gegen Kapital und Nation@gegner_in
8 Apr 2025
Jetzt auch auf Deutsch! Text zu aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Staatenkonkurrenz: die regelbasierte Weltordnung und ihr Ende gegen-kapital-und-nation.org… Orignal in Englisch von @critisticuffs /1
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New article: Peace for our Time Trump has upended the post-war American world order: what has been undone, and what is to be done? critisticuffs.org/texts/peac…
The opening of the article. It reads: “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.” — US President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, 20 January 2025 With these words, Donald Trump declared an end to a central pillar of the American world order. This world order prevailed over half of the world since the end of the Second World War and has prevailed essentially across the entire globe since the 1990s. This declaration by Donald Trump upends the competing calculations of capitalist states worldwide, which now contemplate the odds of war, not only with the US but also with each other.

ALT The opening of the article. It reads: “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.” — US President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address, 20 January 2025 With these words, Donald Trump declared an end to a central pillar of the American world order. This world order prevailed over half of the world since the end of the Second World War and has prevailed essentially across the entire globe since the 1990s. This declaration by Donald Trump upends the competing calculations of capitalist states worldwide, which now contemplate the odds of war, not only with the US but also with each other.
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Our Capital reading groups are just around the corner: - 9th Jan, 7pm for Brighton, at @cowleyclub - 13th Jan, 7pm for London, at @TheSekforde - February for Glasgow You can just turn up on the day, or get in touch with us here if you want to know more.
Cover of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx - Penguin edition

ALT Cover of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx - Penguin edition

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Feel free to spread the word. Here are some links you can share: critisticuffs.org/events/cap… critisticuffs.org/events/cap… critisticuffs.org/events/cap…

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Critisticuffs 🐱😷@critisticuffs
16 Nov 2024
We are starting Marx's Capital Vol 1 reading groups in London, Glasgow and Brighton in the new year. Each will meet weekly, and we will read it together at a slow pace, to allow everyone to be on the same page. Get in touch with us here for more details.
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We are starting Marx's Capital Vol 1 reading groups in London, Glasgow and Brighton in the new year. Each will meet weekly, and we will read it together at a slow pace, to allow everyone to be on the same page. Get in touch with us here for more details.
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Capital isn't an easy book to read - especially the opening chapters - but neither is it beyond anyone willing to spend some time with it. Reading in a group is a good way of coming to an understanding of both the key concepts and overarching structure of the book's arguments.
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You can also send us a blank email to any of these lists to subscribe to email updates: London: reading_capital_in_london-subscribe@lists.riseup.net Glasgow: reading_capital_in_glasgow-subscribe@lists.riseup.net Brighton: reading_capital_in_brighton-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
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New piece: The Conflict between the US and China critisticuffs.org/texts/usa-…
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There is nothing particular about the AGI version of the UBI pitch: it is the contradictory idea that increasing productivity both preserves and destroys the capitalist mode of production antinational.org/en/what-wro…

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David Harvey's ignorance of Marx still matters. One of us recently spoke to Jack and Dan from @AuxStatements podcast talking about value, chapter one of Capital, and our critique of Harvey's 'Companion'.
Auxiliary Statements@AuxStatements
12 Jan 2024
NEW EPISODE It's our big, fat value theory episode. We were joined by Mark from @critisticuffs to discuss the problems with David Harvey's Companion to Marx's Capital, and got set straight on a number of common value theory errors. open.spotify.com/episode/0dz…
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London Radical Bookfair@ARBRadBookfair
20 Oct 2023
The free events programme for the London Radical Bookfair is now live! Will be an inspiring day... londonradicalbookfair.wordpr… Please help us spread the word x
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Hamas (the closest thing to a government that Gaza has) goes to war with Israel. Israel and Hamas kill hundreds, maim thousands, displace tens of thousands: Hamas and Israel put on record that people in [both] Israel and Gaza are material for their calculations and manoeuvres 1/2
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For their aims they produce corpses. Instead of understanding these aims people are asking whether their idiosyncratic morality "allows" them to do that, whether their victims actually "deserve" it (FFS!) or what "international norms" have to say about it. 2/2
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