Class Analysis Part 5: Splits Within Splits

November 12, 2025 - 14 mins read

Let’s talk about the law. Shall we? On the 7th August, the Bulgarian parliament (which, by the by, is representative of merely thirty-nine percent of the voters, to give you an idea of the shining success of free market liberal democracy freedom et cetera) passed unanimously an addition to the law for public education, that states, “In the system of pre-school and school education, it is forbidden to engage in activities, connected with: [.

Class Analysis Part 4: Analysis of the german healthcare system based on the SRH KKH

November 12, 2025 - 14 mins read

Class Composition with Wright’s Theory: …we will try to apply Wrights structural approach to the small hospital I work at. As a reminder, Wright adds the three dimensions of control over money capital, over physical capital ergo the control over the means of production and over labour. The classification goes from no control (-) to full control (+) with partial and minimal in between. The hospital I work at is the SRH KKH, a relatively small private facility with 4 wards (internal, parkinson, neurological rehab and icu) and a Hämosthasiologie for ambulant patients.

Class Analysis Part 3: Concrete example of a vulgar class analysis with materialist feminism

November 12, 2025 - 10 mins read

What is Materialist Feminism Materialist feminism is a feminist movement that originated in France in the later half of the 20th century. A lot of its main thinkers were coming from various socialist movements and parties but were disillusioned with how the question of feminism was treated within those movements. The most advanced, so to say, feminist analyses there went along the line of the following : The situation of working class women was simply of super-exploitation within the capitalist system in the sense that their wages were lower and that their subordinate position within society was a result of the bourgeoisie’s desire to force low wages upon them.

Class Analysis Part 2: Migration: Errors, Successes, Now What?

November 12, 2025 - 13 mins read

The movement of peoples is not, contrary to popular thought, a modern invention. In fact, the history of peoples is also that of movement. Millions of people did not stay fixed in one single location forever, even in the most strictly feudal arrangements. However, the regime (and degree) of control over how, when and which people move, that is in fact quite recent. And it is precisely this control that we face today, as Marxists, that we have to engage with; the division of one great majority of populations into “non-citizens”, oncoming from abroad as this great, so-called “horde”.

Class Analysis Part 1: Marxist theories of Class

November 12, 2025 - 8 mins read

Introduction Today we will be focusing on the concept of class within marxism. Class has always been a very important notion in marxism and therefore one often subject to controversy. While that makes it something daunting to approach one cannot hope to avoid this topic when trying to organise politically. Therefore while giving definitive answers on the precise definition of class is most definitely beyond our capabilities, our goal here is to //TODO more stuff about nuance etc.

Breakdown part 4: German fascism

November 12, 2025 - 11 mins read

Introduction Another example of a crisis in profitability can be found in the German economy in the inter-war period. Sanctions, demobilisation of the economy and limitations on accessing international markets severely affected the German capitalists, especially those within the heavy industry sector. In this part we will see how this economic crisis was able to emerge from World War I and its parallels with the marxist theory of breakdown. But more than that, we will focus on how the German bourgeoisie tried to tackle this crisis.

Breakdown part 3: Breakdown theory and political vulgarism

November 12, 2025 - 8 mins read

Vulgarisms, disavowals and their consequences Aside from the view that the falling rate of profit is explanatory of all crisis formation in a capitalist economy, many other vulgarisms proliferate in relation to the theory. Each new vulgarism necessarily spawns at least as many disavowals of the notion that Marx possessed a breakdown theory, or that one is necessary. We do not have time today to run through even a representative portion of these different responses.

Breakdown part 1: Theory of breakdown; Theories of crises

June 30, 2025 - 13 mins read

Breakdown theory: a crisis in Marxist thought In 1892 the famous theorist of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), Karl Kautsky wrote that “The capitalist social system has run its course; its dissolution is now only a question of time.”1 Over 120 years since Kautsky’s proclamation, the clock is still ticking, but we have had no shortage of those proclaiming that each second it counts will be the last. Prophesies of capitalism’s collapse, often and preferably immediate, have been a commonplace in Marxist literature and politics since the publication of the third volume of Marx’s Capital in 18942.

Summer School 2024 - The Sect Form: Part 2

June 11, 2025 - 28 mins read

3. German Movement Decay Context At the end of the 19th century, the German workers movement had the reputation of being among the most powerful forces of its kind. However, this power had always been more fractured and complicated than both its reputation at the time and its subsequent retrospective romanticisation. From a history of splits and unions, ardent conflict and compromise, the SPD had emerged as one of the largest institutions of the working class.

Summer School 2024 - The Sect Form: Part 1

May 30, 2025 - 32 mins read

Introduction The Marxist left in Britain, Germany, and perhaps Europe as a whole is in crisis. This is not a unique observation; it could even be considered a cliché. It should not be news to anyone here that Marxist organisations, whatever their flavour, are small and essentially irrelevant, aside from brief revivals on the back of spontaneous movements. To those of us familiar with the Marxist left, what remains is a social milieu, composed largely of students and academics, middle-class ideologues, and the rare tired worker, organised into small activist groupings1.