Endnotes (journal)
 Cover of the first issue, 2008 | |
| Discipline | Communism, Political theory, Marxian economics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Anonymous collective |
| Publication details | |
| History | 5 issues since 2008 |
| Frequency | Irregular |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Endnotes |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1943-8281 |
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Endnotes is a communist theoretical journal published by an anonymous collective of the same name. The first issue was released in 2008 by a discussion group that had formed in Brighton, UK, in 2005, later expanding to include participants in Germany and the United States. The journal emerged from debates within the ultraleft and is associated with the political current of communization. Its central project is to produce a "balance sheet of the 20th century" to understand the failures of the historical workers' movement and the changed conditions of class struggle in the 21st century.
The journal's core arguments are that the traditional strategies of the left—which it terms "programmatism"—are obsolete, and that capitalism is increasingly characterized by the production of "surplus populations" whose labor is no longer required for production. Drawing on value-form theory, Endnotes posits that the goal of revolution is not for workers to seize control of the means of production, but to abolish the social relations of capitalism, including value, wage labor, and the working class itself. The journal is noted for its rigorous, academic style and its bleak or pessimistic analysis of contemporary capitalism and social movements. The political theorist Perry Anderson described it as one of the "most impressive publications to emerge in the Bush-Obama era".