Hacker News with Generative AI: Marxism

Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong (abuseofnotation.github.io)
Last week I learned that Robert Paul Wolff, the philosopher who got interested in anarchism and marxism, died and I wanted to write something dedicated to him — this was the first reason I started writing this. The second one, was to finally finish an essay that I have in my /temp folder for at least 10 years, which my 20-year-old self titled “Why should I care?”.
Rentier Capitalism (wikipedia.org)
Rentier capitalism is a concept in Marxist and heterodox economics to refer to rent-seeking and exploitation by companies in capitalist systems.
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey (davidharvey.org)
Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens.
John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism (josephheath.substack.com)