Human labor cannot compete with fixed capital - that's just a fact.
But communism is the only thing which says all things should be brought into the hands of commons to benefit all people. In the past, you'd call that communism. I think in the future, we'll have to call that common sense.
So, there are lots of different reasons why people came out to protest Boris Johnson, but what they were united in was their disdain for a system which has imposed a prime minister who is deeply divisive on the rest of the electorate.
Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.
No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.
There is something deeply wrong with a political culture which only wants to talk about incarceration in the aftermath of a tragedy.
Austerity hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.
The launch of the National Health Service in 1948, one of the world's foremost examples of something being decommodified in the interest of the social good, was met with nothing less than horror by those with vested interests in the private provision of medicine.
The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain.
Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please.
It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.
Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.
The reason Brexiteers have been so effective is that they have made the fight about broad political values.
You can't debunk memes with facts. It's like bringing tap-shoes to a gunfight.
Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.
The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must, do much better than that.
It's important to recognise that opposing racism isn't just about presenting an alternative set of values; it's about looking at how the far right play on people's hardships in order to nurture a sense of enmity between white people and those racialised as migrants.
The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.
Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.
It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.
