Antonio Gramsci, “I Hate Halloween” (1916)

found a quite old (and kind of messy) translation of Dialectic of Enlightenment with a really excellent cover, couldn’t help myself

NEW: Two Unpublished Fragments (On The Tasks of Post-War Marxism) by Horkheimer & Adorno (1946) - On The Relation Between Critical Intellectuals, the Proletariat, and the Communist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…

As a critical theory novice I found jack's essay very helpful in not only explaining what racket theory entails but also demystifying various progressive/crypto-marxist models of political economy

jack lw cooked my ass here. definitely check it out!

New online: Folk-Socialism, a Left Populist Disorder Richard Löwenthal Abridged translation by Terence Renaud historicalmaterialism.org/article/folk-s…

Hi, I'm online again. A week ago, I arrived safely in the U.S. after reporting from the flotilla and being imprisoned by Israel. Today, I have an essay in The Nation reflecting on the experience with a critical account of "partisanship" in journalism. thenation.com/article/world/…

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…

New Recording—Pod EP 4: Amadeo Bordiga and the Murder of the Dead, with Samuel J. Thomas, J.E. Morain, & James Crane. On Bordiga’s incredible 50s/60s run of eco-communist polemics against the so-called “civil engineering” of capitalist civilization! patreon.com/posts/episode-…

I haven’t listened to this yet but I did read some of the pieces written by Bordiga that are discussed in this episode this afternoon and I found them to be pretty rad. Like this short piece on the celebration of the day of the dead and on the solar economy of Incan communism!

Great to see this text finally translated. A generally strong endorsement of Lenin's Materialism and Empiriocriticism by Max Horkheimer that still takes issue with the "reflection theory" of knowledge. jamescrane.substack.com/p/max-horkheim…