Capitalist society is death organized with all the appearances of life. Here it is not a question of death as the extinction of life, but death-in-life, death with all the substance and power of life. The human being is dead and is no more than a ritual of capital.
Jacques Camatte, Against Domestication
Ritual is a magazine of contemporary politics. We assume as a foundational premise the proposition that, under existing conditions, life is routinely dominated and continually transformed by capitalism. We aim to grasp just how this domesticated human being, homo economicus, is perpetuated across space and time, and how it attempts to express itself as a response to a transformative and transforming capitalist hegemony. Ritual is a critical platform for tracing the cultural, philosophic, and socioeconomic threads that mark the interface between human life and capital.
“When you don’t find purpose and meaning in life, the only thing you look forward to is death.”
K.D. Griffiths and J.J. Gleeson present a revolutionary-speculative proposal for the abolition of the family based on a materialist analysis of the relationships between the family, gender, and the reproduction of capitalism
Abe Cabrera analyzes the ideological trajectory of the Mexican eco-terrorist tendencies, Individualidades Tendiendo a lo Salvaje/Reacción Salvaje
Emily Muna offers a brief summary of the history of the Iraqi Communist Party from the 1920s to the present
A left-communist assessment of the state
Reflections on the failures of the 2014 Wheeler Hall Occupation—small thoughts put forward by Prometeo
Juraj Katalenac in conversation with Peter Hudis, author of Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (Haymarket, 2013) and General Editor of Verso’s The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg
a comic by Great Moments in Leftism
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