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On the "Driving Force of Anarchy" and the Dynamics of Change
A Sharp Debate and Urgent Polemic: The Struggle for a Radically Different World and the Struggle for a Scientific Approach to Reality

by Raymond Lotta

November 9, 2026: This article on the driving force of anarchy by Raymond Lotta (which appeared in Demarcations number 3) is in fact a polemic written particularly against the seriously misleading and harmful position of the pseudo-communist, and self-proclaimed “Maoist,” Ajith. This article constitutes a companion to the article in Demarcations number 4, “Ajith—A Portrait of a Residue of the Past.” But in this article by Lotta (in Demarcations number 3), Ajith is referred to indirectly. 

I. A Crucial Breakthrough: the "Driving Force of Anarchy" as the Decisive Dynamic of Capitalism

A. Background

B. Digging into the Political Economy

 

II. A Refusal to Come to Grips with the Nature of Capitalist Accumulation—Or Why the "Capitalist Is Capital Personified"

More on Competition

 

III. The Driving Force of Anarchy, the World Created and Ravaged by Capital

A. The environmental crisis

B. Urbanization and Slums

C. The Global Crisis of 2008-09

 

IV. The Stakes: A System That Cannot Be Reformed... The Revolution That Is Needed

 

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