• Review (in English): “El Capital: Razón Histórica, Sujeto Revolucionario Y Conciencia” by Juan Iñigo Carrera

    Review (in English): “El Capital: Razón Histórica, Sujeto Revolucionario Y Conciencia” by Juan Iñigo Carrera

    A severe letdown of a book. The careful attention to detail and rigor used to develop an understanding of capitalism’s core mechanisms is completely thrown out the window when it comes time to discuss the book’s main subject of focus: subjectivity and revolutionary consciousness.


  • Inside vs. Outside: The Proletarian Composition Problem

    Inside vs. Outside: The Proletarian Composition Problem

    Communism is not the restructuring of capitalism’s distribution of goods, but a complete overhaul of how and why they are produced in the first place. This tendency of capital towards deindustrialized workforces reduces the proportion of workers that are positioned to enact this fundamental productive transformation in a revolutionary situation. This is one of the central problematics of modern communism: the…


  • Engineering, Commodity Production, and Capitalist Domination (Part 2)

    Engineering, Commodity Production, and Capitalist Domination (Part 2)

    Those of us who have accumulated the technical expertise necessary to enable the endless churning of things from factories have done so as part of a vast machine built on an absurd amount of suffering. This suffering cannot be undone, but can potentially be redeemed if this expertise is leveraged towards building a society where planetary domination by the alien logic…


  • Engineering, Commodity Production, and Capitalist Domination (Part 1)

    Engineering, Commodity Production, and Capitalist Domination (Part 1)

    The role of engineers in capitalism is two-fold: our labor simultaneously enables the domination of other laborers through the deployment of technology in service of capital accumulation while also itself being subject to domination by capitalism. A modern anti-capitalist approach to politics must account for the complex role of engineers, as engineers play not only a pivotal role in capitalism, but…


  • Dead Labor is the Embryo of Communism

    Dead Labor is the Embryo of Communism

    For those of us who want a communist society, a society of rationally planned production with universal human wellbeing as its main priority, we must ask: what makes communism possible? What is the foundation upon which such a society comes into being and perpetuates itself?


  • The Present and Future of Engineers

    The Present and Future of Engineers

    Most engineers are proletarians: we perform labor in exchange for a wage, which we need in order to afford a comfortable life in the global capitalist system. Despite this, the origins of modern engineering lie just as much in Taylorist factory management as in the sweaty wage labor of the factory floor. In the social totality that is capitalism, we are…


  • Design For Manufracture

    Design For Manufracture

    In engineering, there is a paradigm called DFM: “design for manufacture”. The idea is that engineers must not only design objects to be functional, but to also be amenable to their intended manufacturing process. The physical properties of any industrially created object are contingent upon the capitalist context that brings them into being. These objects do not exist in a vacuum,…