Sunday, October 11, 2026

Martin Axelrad.

 The (probable) author = Martin Axelrad. Born May 28, 1926 in Vienna (Austria), died in August 2010 in Rome (Italy); refugee in France, with some family after March 1938, parents died in Treblinka. Professor of physics at Orsay (Paris XI); internationalist Marxist, first a young Trotskyist militant (Jeunesses communistes internationalistes) in Grenoble and Paris; then, Parisian member of the the Fraction française de la gauche communiste (FFGCI) in the early 1950s. Finally, one of the main organisers, last member of "Programme communiste" from 1958 and one of the main organisers and editors of the "Bordigist" current in France from 1960 until 1982. Anonymously authored this 1960 Auschwitz essay - published by his organisation, falsely-attributed to Bordiga - and articles on dialectical materialism

https://libcom.org/article/auschwitz-or-great-alibi

Being and whining

 an understanding of modern technology based on the thought of Heidegger and Marx


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Axelos

Kostas Axelos tried to reconcile the ancient thinking of Heraclitus with the modern thinking of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, and others in order to gain a new perspective on some of the problems of Marxism during his time. Axelos used Heraclitus' philosophy as the primary basis for assessing the work of Marx and Engels

Tear down the silo's

 Microsoft CEO: The superintelligence era cannot rely on AI "black boxes"; external control and audit systems are needed

PANews reported on October 11 that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a post stating that as the capabilities of superintelligence systems rapidly improve all religions, nation states and large corporates are security holes.

" Tear down the silo"s depends on creative destruction as described by Bakunin "

Marc responded, “indeed, free and open source software seems non-negotiable here: no backdoors, no skeleton key. National security establishment would balk at this though?”

Rohan responds, “yes, fuck them. I don’t think we should be taking policy advice about how to design our money for the people who think the Patriot Act was a good thing ..."

https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/coindesk-podcast-network/us-digital-dollar-protect-privacy

Communist manifesto as fascist theory

Post 1917 Russia as practise -  and model for the Derg, Khymer Rouge , DPRK, China


 Two of the most authoritarian regimes in major countries today, Russia and China, are both products of the Left, and yet both of them are so socially conservative, ecocidal, colonial, and detached from considerations of equality and the common good they just don’t fit anywhere on a Right-Left spectrum.


LEFT-FASCISM   THE HIGHEST STAGE OF MARXIST-COMMUNISM

Get Carter

 Marxism as an ideology developed by a rising "managerial-technical" class that would replace the bourgeoisie as a new ruling class without altering in any fundamental way the exploitation of the proletariat. Carter attacks historical materialism, Marxist economics, Marxist sociology, Marx's theory of the state, and Marxist-Leninist politics (which he identifies as the form of politics advocated by Marx himself).

https://libcom.org/article/marx-radical-critique-alan-carter

A disgrace to science

History as process without a subgect - in Marxism, the “essence” which is revealed by social practice is the dialectical unfolding of the thing through successively deeper and deeper meanings

It is possible that I could disgrace myself. But there's always a bit of Dialectic to help out. I have naturally expressed my statements so that I am also right if the opposite thing happens.


(No other English translation available online)

The German

Marx an Engels, 15. August 1857

"Es ist möglich, daß ich mich blamiere. Indes ist dann immer mit einiger Dialektik zu helfen. Ich habe natürlich meine Aufstellungen so gehalten, daß ich im umgekehrten Fall auch Recht habe."

MEW a.a.O. 29, 161., Rotbuch S. 115

If you say so

 Generally-speaking, “essentialism” is used with a negative connotation in contrast to subjectivist constructivism in feminist or postmodern social theory. That is to say, “essentialism” is taken to mean that there is an essential meaning of something that is not socially constructed (for example, blacks or women are ‘essentially’ different from whites and men), in contrast to constructivism which is taken to mean that meaning is constructed by the subject in practical or critical activity (and thus gender or ‘race’ differences are socially constructed). 

“Essentialism” can be used in the same derogatory sense in reference to the Marxist understanding of social class as underlying or being the “essence” of a political or ideological orientation. From this standpoint, ideology is ideology and class is class, fullstop. Broadly speaking the term has the same meaning as “metaphysics” had for positivism.

https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/e/s.htm

Martin Axelrad.

  The (probable) author = Martin Axelrad. Born May 28, 1926 in Vienna (Austria), died in August 2010 in Rome (Italy); refugee in France, wit...