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Marx's Capital

Capital Volume II: Class 9

Readings: Capital II, ch. 15-17 “If we were to consider a communist society in place of a capitalist one, then money capital would immediately be done away with, and so too the disguises that transactions acquire through it. The matter would be simply reduced to the fact that the society must reckon in advance how […]

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cryptocurrency

The Bitcoin Life Raft or the Terra Firma Society?

Bitcoin has acted as an index of uncertainty since its inception. It was born out of the financial crisis of 2007-09 with a message embedded in the genesis block referencing the instability of the financial system: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” As the financial systems of the imperialist countries […]