Karl Marx

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but healthcare, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.That’s the radical vision proposed by philosophy professor and Marxist scholar Kohei…

The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism is an expanded version of Degrowth/Postwachstum zur Einführung (2018) by Matthias Schmelzer and Andrea Vetter. In an interview to a Montreal-based book review journal, Aaron Vansintjan, who has been credited as co-author in the English edition, stated that “while growth is a powerful stabilizing mechanism of capitalist modernity, it destabilizes the ecological foundations of human life also on this planet.” Degrowth is a variant of post capitalism “organising…

More than decade ago, near Kandahar, Afghanistan, the U.S. military employed one of its Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit (SEEK II) devices for the last time. The piece of tech, a chunky black rectangle used to scan fingerprints and irises, was turned off and stowed away. That is, until August 2022 when Matthias Marx, a German security researcher, bought the device for $68 off of eBay (a steal, at about half the the listed price). But that’s not all. For the low, low price of less than $70, Marx had inadvertently also…