THE NEW OLD WORLD OF AI

(part 1) Something strange happened recently. Capitalists begging the state to regulate them and to force them to slow their growth: that is not something you see every day. But it’s what Sam Altman (OpenAI), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Elon Musk (xAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) and other bosses of what is considered to be the …

Communism, Exchange, Transition, and the Abolition of the State

To continue the debate on the transition to communism, we refer our readers to an essay with the above title, written by Anwar Najmadin, a pro-revolutionary Marxist active in the Kurdish region of Iraq. It recently was published on the website of the Marxist Humanist Initiative (MHI). Early on, Najmadin explains his intent: “In much …

Yes, It’s War

Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Barely three weeks into the Gaza conflict, Brazil’s president Lula declared “It’s not a war, it’s a genocide.” “End the genocide. It’s not a war,” Francesca Albanese told a UN committee in November 2024. “There is no war. It’s a misnomer to call it a war,” said the genocide historian Omer …