Sep 25, 2023
To start, two quotes:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over…
Aug 30, 2023
Several interesting properties of the human mode of history:
Humanity has the capacity for surplus labor. I.e., in $N$ hours, a group of humans can act on its environment to procure sufficient material resources to sustain the lives of that group for more than $N$ hours.…
Aug 30, 2023
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
– Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto…
Aug 29, 2023
The cover Announcing a release of an English translation of Marta Harnecker’s Los conceptos fundamentales del materialismo histórico, or The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism in English.…
Aug 27, 2023
For many years this blog was called Parametricity. I am no longer that interested in type theory, so I am renaming the blog to reflect its new content, which is mostly Marxism.…