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Johannes Agnoli's death in 2003 deprived us of one of the most important thinkers of the categorical imperative of human emancipation. Werner Bonefeld, a former student of Agnoli's, outlines Agnoli's life and works. This article also collects his much too few English publications below.

Johannes Agnoli was a Italian Marxist political scientist, though he rejected the label Marxist, preferring instead - somewhat ironically - to call himself an Agnolist. Werner Bonefeld, a founder of Open Marxism, was a student of Agnoli's in Berlin. This piece first appeared in German in 1990 and was translated by Bonefeld for issue #12 of the journal Common Sense. An updated translation and preface by Bonefeld appears here from the book Revolutionary Writing, a collection of writings from ...

Social democracy aims to achieve a fairer society through balanced power relations between classes, but no matter how many rights tenants hold under capitalism, landlords still exploit them. Organizers must resist the incorporation of working class struggles into the state, otherwise they ensure the ongoing reproduction of capitalist social relations.

Fathom regularly invites writers to select their favourite books about a subject. Here, Matthew Bolton recommends three on critical theory and antisemitism. A much longer piece than the norm, the edit...

Archived copy of the Class against Class website, with links to all the articles it contained.

Tomorrow, expect more rain. Expect more snow. Expect the snow not to stick around. That said, today was weird. Cats and dogs in the morning. Suddenly sunny in the afternoon. Then black clouds approaching the city like some massive alien spaceship that's going to reduce the 206 to dust. Then witch-swirled snow. Then more rain. Then the sun again. After a day like this, one shouldn't be surprised to learn that "Seattle ranks as most...

Werner Bonefeld argues that the prominent role of the state since the financial crisis of 2008 is not a break with 'neoliberalism', because a free market and a strong state require one another.

Werner Bonefeld on debt, which became a serious political and social issue during the 1980s and 90s, culminating in Black Wednesday in September 1992.

Aufheben's review and critique of The beginning of history: Value struggles and global capital by Massimo De Angelis, Pluto Press, London, 2007.

Anti-Fascism Is Not Simply a Moral Objection — It Is a Practical One Counterprotesters approach Trump supporters, including Proud Boys, during a rally on December 12, 2020, in Olympia, Washington. David Ryder/Getty Images Recent years have been scarred by an incipient fascism, plague and pestilence, and the violence that marked the end of the Trump administration. A renewed cycle of autonomous working-class organizing, Black Lives Matter and Indigenous struggles, and multitudinous anti-fas...