NEW: Re Tejus works towards synthesizing a critical theory of class in "Class and Rackets, Part 1 - Conditions," the latest post in our dossier series on racket theory. Part II soon to follow! ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Rack…

NEW: Introduction by james.crane and J. E. Morain to our collection of texts by Horkheimer on 'racket theory.' This essay covers the history of the Frankfurt School's racket theory project as well as some of the core theoretical problems and themes of it. ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Rack…

NEW: A collection of newly translated texts by Max Horkheimer on 'racket theory' from the unpublished companion volume to Dialectic of Enlightenment. ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Rack…

NEW: A critical edition of Max Horkheimer's 1943 essay "On the Sociology of Class Relations." This text analyzes the return of direct domination in late capitalism, conformist reformism in the labor movement, and the role of hierarchies in human history. ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Clas…

EP1 of Critique of the Podcast Form: A Critical Theory Podcast is live! Introducing Racket Theory: on the ISR's 1940's class theory of social domination—ft. J.E. Morain (J. E. Morain ), Mac Parker (Mac ), Re Tejus, & James Crane (james.crane ) patreon.com/posts/episode-…

NEW: J.E. Morain (J. E. Morain ) presents a translated excerpt from K.A. Wittfogel’s “Natural Factors in Economic History” (1932), an early eco-Marxist model for tackling problems like the value of nature, nature of labor-power, & geography of production ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Witt…

NEW: We attempt a synoptic application and extension of the Frankfurt School's racket theory in the form of a series of collectively authored short fragments/essays. Topics include zionism, domestic labor, caste, conspiracy theories, class, and war ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Vari…

Marius BICKHARDT et Cannelle GIGNOUX, "Le marxisme écologique en contexte(s). Une histoire en cinq épisodes" Il s'agit d'un bref essai sur les pensées de Marx, de Ratzel, de Wittfogel, de Harich et des écomarxistes contemporains depuis O'Connor. shs.cairn.info/revue-critique…

NEW: Two Unpublished Fragments (On The Tasks of Post-War Marxism) by Horkheimer & Adorno (1946) - On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist Party - The Curse of Writing Today ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/HA_F…

NEW: “Racketology and the Development of Competition.” In this reply to Mac Parker’s “Economic Limits of Racketology,” Jack Barrett argues Horkheimer offers an expanded concept of competition + a preemptive critique of Baran & Sweezy’s theory of monopoly! ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Comp…

SS reject and unrepentant fascist Armin Mohler considered Ze'ev Jabotinsky part of the broader Conservative Revolution, whose German representatives were Hitler and those Mohler called the "Trotskyists of National Socialism" (Jünger, the Strasser brothers, etc.)

NEW: Part I of "Reflections on the Right and its Violence" by J. E. Morain This essay on reactionary violence seeks to show the basic unity behind conservative acts of social murder, neo-nazi terror attacks, and everything in between. ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Reac…

I will try to have the second part (around the same length as this one) out within a week or two.

Second and final part uploading rn

NEW: Pt 2 of "Reflections on the Right and its Violence" by J. E. Morain The second half of this essay gets into more detail about Trump, ICE, so-called accelerationism, religion, and youth terrorism. ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Reac…

EP 6: INTRO TO THE HISTORY OF LEFT COMMUNISM J. E. Morain is joined by Cam for an intro to the history of left-communism, specifically the German/Dutch (councilist), Italian (Bordigist) and French (ultraleft) traditions listen free on Patreon, Apple & YT linktr.ee/CritiqueoftheP…

EP 8: The Anime Question The CTWG's Anime Subcommittee convenes for a holiday discussion of Marc Steinberg's book 'Anime's Media Mix' (ft. Hatsune Miku) patreon.com/posts/anime-qu…