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The classes and class struggles contents of the Bangsamoro question
PurposeThere is a noticeable dearth of literature offering Marxist perspectives and analyses on the Bangsamoro struggles for self-determination, ethnic and religious identities and social justice. A reason for this may lie in the general derision of bourgeois academics and conventional commentators on the supposed paucity of Marxist theories on nationalism, ethnicity and religion. This may have influenced, ironically, Filipino Marxist thinkers into being indifferent to this research topic. Far from the truth, however, that Marxism is essentially an economic determinist social conflict theory, its historical materialism offers a rich treasury of analyses and perspectives on nationalism, self-determination, religion and ethnic identity within the context of class struggles as the acme of the theory of scientific socialism. The paper, therefore, offers a scientific analysis of the Bangsamoro Question from a Marxist standpoint beyond the perspectives of psychologism, naturalism and ethno-racialism, which are usually deployed by traditional and uninformed commentators in analyzing ethnicity questions and quests for separatism.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs the historical and class analysis of the dynamics, relationships and struggles of classes in the history of the Bangsamoro struggles against colonialism and the subsequent postcolonial regimes up to the present time.FindingsAs a scientific paradigm, historical materialism presents itself as a general scientific social conflict theory. Using this framework through historical and class analyses, the paper proves the improbability of the Moros’ quest for separatism or genuine autonomy at this historical point. It, therefore, asserts the linking of the Moro struggles to the more immense struggles of the Filipinos for national and social liberation from imperialism.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is limited to the historical and class analyses of classes’ dynamics and struggles. It is, therefore, far from an exhaustive analysis of the Moro struggles using different non-Marxist social conflict theories.Practical implicationsThe research can be considered a practical guide in analyzing and predicting the trajectories of the Moro struggles in Mindanao and Sulu.Social implicationsThe work addresses the question from radical and Marxist premises.Originality/valueThis is a highly original and valuable work from the point of view of Marxist social conflict theory.
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Turbo Change
The global spread of a machine-based civilization based on accelerating scientific discovery and technological innovation has increased the rate, magnitude, complexity, novelty, and disruptiveness of change in human affairs, visible in violence, environment and information domains. Human capacity to forecast, assess and explain remains limited, and institutional capacities to adjust are inadequate. IR theory has not focused enough attention on analyzing human-material interactions. Some practical insight may be gained from renewed and broadened historical materialism, or neoclassical geopolitics, examining fit and misfit between material forces and social practices, structures and identities. Architectonic metaphors such as global village and spaceship Earth are deficient, and an alternative of a global debris mat on a narrowing river-of-no-return better captures the overall planetary situation.
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Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy
\"This book rejects the commonly-encountered perception of Engels as perpetuator of a \"tragic deception\" of Marx, and the equally persistent body of opinion treating him as His Master's Voice. Engels's claim to recognition is reinforced by an exceptional contribution in the 1840s to the very foundations of the Marxian enterprise, a contribution entailing not only the \"vision\" but some of the building blocks in the working out of that vision. Subsequently, he proved himself to be a sophisticated interpreter of the doctrine of Historical Materialism and an important contributor in his own right\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism
Recent writing in economic and business history is reexamining major transformations in world history—industrialization, capitalism, the global economy. This new literature avoids the structural determinism of old with much greater sensitivity to politics, culture, and social institutions. To a lesser degree it bridges the gap between social science–type history, often written by those trained in economics departments, and the more narrative styles of those trained in history departments. Taken as a whole, the recent scholarship offers a substantial rethinking of how we should engage material life, including the natural world, and a challenge to cultural historians who focus exclusively on language and representation. Woven through the various works is a possible new ontology that grants agency to things as well as people without the traditional tension between the power of external structures and the autonomy of human consciousness. This new materialism offers a way for historians to bring markets, finance, capital, technology, corporations, and other economic features of the past back into the historical narrative.
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An Exploration of the Ideas of Marx and Engels on Historical Materialism
Marx Engels’ historical materialism has an important position in the history of human thought, and the understanding of Marx Engels’ historical materialism thought varies in different historical contexts. This paper takes its theoretical qualities as the entry point of this research to clarify the characteristics of its development in different times. According to the connection between historical materialism and game theory, replicated dynamic equations and evolutionary stabilization strategies are used to construct an evolutionary game model in the view of historical materialism. With the help of this paper’s model and numerical simulation software, the labor force and social contradictions in Marx Engels’ historical materialism thought are simulated and analyzed. When there is an oversupply of labor in the labor market, as the capital gain
is larger (increasing from 60 to 100), it causes
(the probability of high departure of workers) to rise more slowly, and there is no significant difference in the rate of increase of
(the probability of low departure of workers), which indicates that there is only a relationship of interest between capital and labor in Marx Engels’ historical materialist thought.
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Notes from the Editors
In 2024, Monthly Review Press published a translation of Domenico Losurdo's 2017 Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn, edited by Gabriel Rockhill. Many of the issues raised in Losurdo's book were taken up by Rockhill and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster in a dialogue in the March issue of MR. They pointed to the \"four retreats\" that have characterized Western Marxism as a theoretical tradition: the retreat from class, the retreat from anti-imperialism, the retreat from materialism/nature/science, and the retreat from reason. Closely related to this critique of Western Marxism is the critique of post-modernism, sometimes referred to as \"French theory,\" for its role in the attempted deconstruction of historical materialism and its promotion of irrationalism--along with the contradictions that this has generated in left theory and practice. A forthcoming book on this from Monthly Review Press is Aymeric Monville and Gabriel Rockhill's Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key.
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Reworking the World System Paradigm
Reading the statements, reviews and rejoinders generated by those three big questions, it does not take long to realize that no-one changes sides in this debate. Taking one position or another is a matter of defining terms to establish a comfort zone, then causing history to unfold in response to those terms. But all the positions have a common background in historical materialism.
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