In this review, Nishok G U discusses Ben Ware's book, On Extinction, which reimagines contemporary crises like climate collapse and political stagnation not as apocalyptic ends but as opportunities for radical renewal. Ware suggests that real transformation requires confronting 'the end' directly, embracing a process of 'revolutionary decreation'. But the review also highlights the unresolved tensions in Ware’s approach, particularly with regard to the question of political v

In this conversation, Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism. Challenging the view of Marx as a cold materialist, Wills reveals his deep ethical vision, one that is grounded in freedom, creativity, and collective self-determination. She argues that revolution is not chaos but humanity’s conscious effort to overcome alienation and shape a just world, where moral and historical progress unite in the struggle for genuine emancipation.

It is often thought that Marx, despite starting out as a philosopher, sought to break with philosophy in order to carry out his mature work. In this essay, Christoph Schuringa argues that Marx's overall project, culminating in Capital, is not concerned with replacing philosophy with some other enquiry, but to raise philosophy itself to its highest power and to actualize it. As a philosopher, Marx, far from carrying out any derivative work, sought to surpass his predecessors s

Paul North presents Marx's Capital as a dynamic, multi-genre work that blends economics, philosophy, and satire, along with tools from German idealism and political critique. Marx’s first volume lays out a theory of value, a social force produced in labor that structures life under capitalism. Though rooted in 19th-century England, its insights extend globally. Marx challenges the system’s apparent inevitability, offering a framework to understand capitalism’s operations and

Sandro Brito Rojas argues that, for Marx, ideology is a false consciousness that obscures the true nature of social relations, particularly the alienation caused by the division between mental and material labor. Rojas highlights that Marx’s critique of ideology is not just intellectual but calls for revolutionary action. Ideology is a consequence of social contradictions, not their root cause. To overcome ideological distortions, a material transformation of society is neces