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The Cart Before the Horse: On labor-time accounting, the immediate nature of the transition to communism, and “scientific” utopias

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Jack B

High priests of telescopes and cyclotrons: Marxism and revolutionary strategy as science

Vivak Soni evaluates the scientific content of Marxism and its strategic orientations.

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Vivak Soni

One year in: a self-critique

We engage in a brief self-critique to mark the one year anniversary of the launch of The Black Lamp, focussing on organisational shortcomings, engagement, and looking ahead to the next year.

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The Black Lamp Collective

Modeling the structure of organisations - a research proposal

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Vivak Soni

Right theme, great research, bad philosophy: a review of the works of Kohei Saito

Being an extensive but nonetheless most partial review of the books Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism and Marx and the Anthropocene, by Professor Kohei Saito

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Davy Jones

Questions of organisation

Looking towards the future: The Democratic Socialists of America in 2023

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Yossarian

The Capitalist Climate: 15 weeks of drought in Andalusia

Miguel Crespo Perretta reports on the effects of drought in Southern Spain.

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Miguel Crespo Perretta

An Absence of Fraternal Concurrence: A review of Dan Evans' A Nation of Shopkeepers

Vivak Soni reviews Dan Evans' A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie

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Vivak Soni

Questions of organisation

Modelling organisations using Viability Guided Decision Making

Donal Costello applies viability theory to the modelling of the reproduction of organisations.

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Donal Costello

Left Fallow: Food Systems in a Time of Stagnation

Jack B looks into the role of the food system in the reproduction of not only modes of production, but all human life.

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Jack B