NEW: Pt 2 of "Reflections on the Right and its Violence" by J. E. Morain

The second half of this essay gets into more detail about Trump, ICE, so-called accelerationism, religion, and youth terrorism.
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Re...

NEW: Part I of "Reflections on the Right and its Violence" by J. E. Morain

This essay on reactionary violence seeks to show the basic unity behind conservative acts of social murder, neo-nazi terror attacks, and everything in between.
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Re...

NEW: “Racketology and the Development of Competition.”
In this reply to Mac Parker’s “Economic Limits of Racketology,” Jack Barrett argues Horkheimer offers an expanded concept of competition + a preemptive critique of Baran & Sweezy’s theory of monopoly!
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Co...

it’s not too late to sign up for the last meeting of the session (eventbrite.com/e/views-from...), & thanks to everyone who’s already contributed to the PCRF fundraiser—as of today we’re 87% of the way to meeting our goal! Help us to 100% if you can! pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/p...

Thanks to everyone who came out for the conclusion to Rabea Eghbariah’s “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”—join us next Sat., 9/20 @ noon EST as Anatarah bin AlKaf opens our discussion of “Resisting Erasure” (2025) by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, & Rafeef Ziadah!

Thanks to everyone who came out for the discussion of Sections I-II of “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—see you this Saturday, 9/13, @ noon EST for our discussion of section III & the conclusion with J.E. Morain. See you there!

Thanks to everyone who came out for the second study of Kanafani’s “On Zionist Literature”! Next up: two meetings on “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept” by Rabea Eghbariah—Sections I & II presented by Esther Planas Balduz & Morgan Lily this Saturday, 9/6, @ noon EST. See you there!

CTWG Fall 25: Views from Palestine
Saturdays @ noon EST, 8/23-9/27

Palestinian Critical Theory past & present:
- Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature (1967)
- Eghbariah’s Nakba as a Legal Concept (2024)
- Resisting Erasure by Hanieh, Knox, & Ziadah (2025)

schedule & sign up 🔗 ⬇️

NEW: Re Tejus works toward synthesizing a critical theory of class in "Class and Rackets, Part I - Conditions." Part II is soon to follow!
ctwgwebsite.github.io/blog/2025/Ra...

Thanks for joining our discussion with Esther Planas Balduz on ego-formation & bourgeois revolution, & the early Frankfurt critique of late Freud! Join us next Sat, 5/3, for the last of CTWG Spring ‘25—on the “Egoism”-essay as critical model with James/Crane!

thanks for joining our discussion with J.E. Morain on the scope & limits of Wittfogel’s histomat geography of production! no meeting next week—join us 4/26 for Horkheimer’s (Frommian!) social psychology of revolutionaries & rebels with Esther!

Thanks all who made it out for our discussion of the Hessen-Grossmann thesis & prospects for critical-theoretical history of science with Anatarah Bin AlKaf! Join us next week (4/12) for Wittfogel’s early writings (~1929-32) on historical materialism & nature with J.E. Morain!

Thanks everyone for coming out to our convo with Mac Parker on the problem of the monopoly-capital paradigm grounding racket theory! Join us next week for a convo with Anatarah Bin AlKaf on the Hessen-Grossmann thesis & critical-theoretical historiography of science!

Critics & theorists! We're excited to announce open & free registration for the post-release meeting for the first volume of the CTWG's E-Journal, "Margin Notes: Volume 1, Kernels of Early Critical Theory" - Friday, January 31st from 2PM-4PM EST!

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NEW ON THE CTWG SITE

MARGIN NOTES: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL THEORY

V1: KERNELS OF EARLY CRITICAL THEORY

Critical Theory is only right in a wrong world.

Link: ctwgwebsite.github.io/projects/1_p...