Jacobin — Introducing The Abcs Of Capitalism

Political organizing is difficult — political educational activity shouldn’t accept to be. In the best tradition of socialist pedagogy, Catalyst together with Jacobin are partnering upwards for a novel serial of pamphlets, called The ABCs of Capitalism. Each i is self-contained, together with tin hit notice last read on its own. But the serial equally a whole volition last internally coherent together with afterwards pamphlets volition construct on the before ones....

• Pamphlet one: “Understanding Capitalism.” H5N1 forty-page text explaining clearly why capitalism isn’t only a collection of individuals, but individuals grouped inwards social classes amongst really unlike interests. Capitalists aren’t necessarily “greedy,” but motivated past times marketplace pressures together with those pressures exercise enormous wealth but too dandy misery for the majority. Because of the nature of the arrangement workers tin hit notice entirely advance if they human activity collectively.
• Pamphlet two: “Capitalism together with the State.” We are living inwards a novel Gilded Age, inwards which an immense concentration of wealth has grown together amongst the concentration of political power. This pamphlet analyzes the sources of acre bias. We involve to sympathise why, far from counteracting the ability of capital, states tend to reinforce it. We involve to recognize the structural forces that bind it to capitalist interests, fifty-fifty though capitalists’ small-scale numbers should last a disadvantage inwards a democratic system.
• Pamphlet three: “Capitalism together with Class Struggle.” The argue working-class struggles are key to Left politics is that they are the enabling status for everything else. They exercise the ability together with the political leverage that enables us to human activity on our morals together with ideological beliefs — whereas the morals together with values without the leverage stay piddling to a greater extent than than pipedreams. In this 3rd pamphlet, nosotros prepare the classic rationale for a class-based political strategy. We attempt how it industrial plant together with too why, fifty-fifty though it deserves to last at the middle of progressive politics, it is together with then difficult to organize together with sustain....

Jacobin
Introducing The ABCs of Capitalism

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