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About ann li-summers

retired professor, independent scholar

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: we’re not at the brink, but we can see it from here

Posted on 26/10/2026 by ann li-summers

At one moment in its history, the KKK was called an “invisible empire”. A similar empire or its imperialist members now reside in the national government, where even the GOP has been colonized, sadly adopting a culture of racist and … Continue reading →

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09/02/2026–6pmET WEDNESDAY OFFICE HOURS.

Posted on 01/09/2026 by ann li-summers

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ CHAPTER 10 EN.WIKISOURCE.ORG/… The problem of capitalist labor-time (Foley figure 3.1) is whether commodities exchange at their labor values. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​The motion of money as capital binds the production process to the … Continue reading →

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: rethinking information property at a distance, making mediocre people dumber

Posted on 01/06/2026 by ann li-summers

31 May 2026 at Daily Kos I take Paul Cockshott’s recent blog piece on technical jargon seriously and yet I persist in cranking stuff out that tries to make sense of materialist thought without lapsing into jargon. Then, I go … Continue reading →

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Tackling an art & economics problem using an AI

Posted on 30/04/2026 by ann li-summers

Leo AI in the Brave browser You: did leonardo da vinci understand that increasing the amount of people purchasing art materials brought the price of artist materials down Leo AI: No, there is no historical evidence that Leonardo da Vinci … Continue reading →

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: neoliberalism, antitrust, and those pesky rentiers

Posted on 21/04/2026 by ann li-summers
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GOPhascism dismantling the US Forest Service in the biggest smash-and-grab to date

Posted on 14/04/2026 by ann li-summers
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michael roberts

Posted on 10/02/2025 by ann li-summers
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NFTs are a lot like this banana, uh no they aren’t –

Posted on 01/12/2024 by ann li-summers

Guy who bought a $600k pet rock wants $25,000 in bananas “NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are a lot like this banana” — A crypto-person not clear on the concept, but considering he is a significant investor in Trump’s (World Liberty) cryptoponzi fund, … Continue reading →

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LTRPF

Posted on 30/01/2024 by ann li-summers
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reprint

Posted on 30/05/2023 by ann li-summers

Friday essay: could a reinterpreted Marxism have solutions to our unprecedented environmental crisis? Jeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne In 2021, Kohei Saito’s Capital in the Anthropocene became a publishing sensation in Japan, eventually selling more than half a million … Continue reading →

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