Tag: marxism

Digital capitalism promises progress, development and an end to the planetary crisis. Through a Marxist lens, contributors interrogate the implications of heightened technological innovation on employment, weak market democracies, climate change and labour power dynamics. They also explore alternatives for emancipatory futures in a digitalised world.

Gargantuan and tyrannical unions like the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have leveraged their power, numbers, money, and capacity to threaten violence, and in so doing hold the economy hostage.

If you pay attention to what is happening, you can learn some basic principles of economics. This makes sense, when you realise that economics...

Sithole problematises the signifier X, as a marker of the dehumanisation of the black subject. He argues that post-1994 South Africa retains the markers of its colonial past, and remains a territory of unfreedom for blacks. He offers a new imagination for a liberatory project through the idea of Azania as a site of true emancipation.

Our reality is that our realities are unfixable in the short term as ideologies only change when supporters die of old age or in a revolution.