Who we are
Agitka editorial collective was founded in 2026 in response to the need for rigorous Marxist analysis of contemporary reality. That year became another moment when the world hegemon dropped its mask: the United States attack on Venezuela and openly declared plans to annex Greenland revealed the predatory core of modern imperialism. At the same time, armed conflict in Gaza continued while the world reached the highest number of armed conflicts since World War II. Observing these events, and the crisis of progressive media, we saw an ideological vacuum we intend to fill. We are a team of experienced editors joining forces to restore dynamism to critical thought. We reject the pose of all-knowing experts in favor of deep specialization. We believe that only rigorous knowledge can effectively expose the mechanisms of power and capital.
The human question in todays world
We ask a fundamental question: what world do we want to leave to future generations? Do we accept a reality in which millions work harder and harder while their lives do not improve? Do we accept a planet exploited to its limits in the name of short-term profit?
We do not ask about abstract economic systems. We ask about concrete human lives:
- a mother forced to choose between paying bills and buying medicine for her child;
- young people who, despite education, cannot afford housing of their own;
- patients who suffer and die from treatable conditions because the development of productive forces is systemically constrained.
We ask about the daily harm and suffering of billions, produced by scarcity, powerlessness before nature, human limitations, and the underdevelopment of collective social capacity. These conditions share one feature: without capitals brake on progress, they would already be as archaic as helplessness before floods and fires, day-long walks for water, mass failure to reach adulthood, or horse-powered transport.
We believe another world is possible: a world of rational cooperation that secures shared prosperity and frees people from permanent struggle for survival.
The market as production anarchy and the primacy of profit
For decades, dominant ideology claimed that the invisible hand of the market is the best regulator of the economy. In practice, what liberal economics calls market efficiency appears as chaos, what Karl Marx precisely described as the anarchy of production. The other side of this disorder is the subordination of the whole economy to the primacy of profit rather than social benefit.
What does this anarchy mean? It is a system in which thousands of actors make production decisions in fragmented, uncoordinated ways, guided only by private profitability rather than social need.
Civilizational-scale waste. Every year, billions of tons of food are discarded while hundreds of millions go hungry. Luxury apartments remain empty while families have no roof over their heads. Top corporate talent is directed toward maximizing sales of disposable gadgets, while technologies capable of delivering unprecedented civilizational progress fight for a fraction of that attention. Production is organized so products fail quickly, forcing us to buy again.
Cyclical crises and mass unemployment. The free market repeatedly falls into recessions that are not natural disasters but a logical consequence of chaotic, profit-driven production. During crises, factories sit idle and workers lose jobs not because social needs disappear, but because profitability does.
Deeply irrational coordination. Vast amounts of labor and capital are wasted on goods no one will buy. Firms duplicate effort and multiply structural costs. Bankruptcies and broken supply chains paralyze economic life. Blind capital allocates resources where they are not needed and cuts them where they are essential.
Stagnation. In recent years, global growth has hovered around 3% annually, with forecasts pointing to further slowdown, even when measured with GDP, an indicator inflated by volumes of low-value transactions.
In the 1960s, with far more limited technology, average growth exceeded 5% annually. The picture is worse when we examine productivity growth driven by technology and organization: over the last decade-plus it has remained near-stagnant.
Even mainstream international analysts now identify structural flaws of capitalist production anarchy as a key source of this impasse. This is not a short anomaly but a long trend. Since the 1970s, humanity has not delivered a qualitative breakthrough in energy capture or information processing. As Tyler Cowen put it, ours is an age of Great Stagnation.
Ecological devastation. Capital seeks the shortest route to profit. Ecological costs, poisoned rivers, deforestation, climate destabilization, are externalized onto society and future generations. The market does not register them because they do not fit in quarterly reports.
Inequality to the point of absurdity. A tiny wealthy minority holds resources comparable to those of half of humanity. This is not a reward for diligence but a systemic feature of an economy that rewards ownership of capital over social usefulness of labor.
This is not efficiency. It is chaos presenting itself as rationality.
Capital and imperialism
Current events confirm Lenins diagnosis: imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. The logic of endless growth and accumulation leads to external aggression, struggle over raw materials, and fights for spheres of influence. Todays wars are not diplomatic accidents, but a necessary result of capitals drive to control markets and natural resources at the expense of whole nations sovereignty.
The myth that planning is impossible
For decades we were told, following Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek, that rational economic planning is impossible. Knowledge about resources and needs, they claimed, is too dispersed to process, and only the price mechanism can aggregate social information.
That argument was already false in the twentieth century. Today, in an era of immense computing power, artificial intelligence, and Big Data, it is a complete relic. Oskar Lange already showed that the market is a primitive computational mechanism solving problems by trial and error. But each trial means real human cost: bankruptcies, unemployment, and broken life paths.
At the same time, Soviet economists in Gosplan, from Krzhizhanovsky to Saburov, challenged Mises and Hayek in practice. Evidence also came from institutions such as the US War Production Board and Japans MITI.
Today we live in a world Lange could only anticipate. Algorithms aggregate dispersed information in real time, and logistics systems coordinate global supply chains with precision unimaginable to earlier planners. The knowledge-aggregation problem is solved every day, but in service of corporate profit rather than social need.
Planning already exists. The question is: for whom?
Let us face reality: we already live in a planned world. But it is not social or democratic planning. It is corporate planning subordinated to capitals interests.
As Ronald Coase noted, within large firms the market does not operate. There are no competing prices, there are commands, hierarchies, and precise logistics. Amazon coordinates millions of products without an internal price mechanism. Walmart manages one of the most complex supply chains in history through centralized planning systems. Digital platforms such as Google, Meta, and Alibaba hold more data on our preferences than we do ourselves.
This is planning in its pure form. The difference is that it serves only the maximization of shareholder profit. The massive infrastructure built by collective human effort is used to sustain compulsive consumption and precision steering of attention.
Following Shoshana Zuboff, we describe this order as surveillance capitalism: a system in which human life becomes raw material and data a new enclosure frontier.
Two paths
We stand at a crossroads. The technology we already possess can be deployed in two opposite directions.
The first path leads toward digital feudalism. Algorithmic planning is introduced gradually through the back door under the rhetoric of convenience. Platforms increasingly interfere with what we eat, where we work, and whom we meet. In exchange for apparent comfort, people are nudged to surrender autonomy.
The second path is a conscious choice for democratic economic coordination. Planning not as an instrument of financial oligarchy, but as a mechanism to realize the interests of humanity as a whole. Technology subordinated to human needs rather than humans subordinated to algorithmic logic.
The real choice is not between free market and central planning. It is between corporate planning and social planning, between an economy for capital and an economy for people.
Our vision
We fight for a world in which technology truly frees humanity from what Marx called the realm of necessity, from monotonous compulsory labor and the fear of survival. In its place we aim for a realm of freedom: space for creativity, relationships, and development.
We imagine a society in which:
- no one has to worry about access to housing, food, healthcare, and education;
- work becomes creative expression and a conscious contribution to the common good rather than economic compulsion;
- economic decisions are made for maximum social benefit with democratic citizen participation in planning;
- technology is directed at real social and ecological problems instead of manufacturing artificial demand.
This is not utopia. It is a technical possibility currently wasted on ad optimization and speculative business models.
Our place in the left movement
We do not claim a monopoly on truth. Agitka grows from the rich tradition of socialist thought and seeks to contribute to it, not compete with it. We respect the diversity of the left: trade unionists, ecologists, tenant movements, and anti-imperialist activists.
Our specific contribution is technological analysis, the conviction that the contemporary left must actively shape technological development instead of leaving it to capital. Algorithms and AI are not neutral. They are infrastructures of power that can either deepen exploitation or support rational social coordination.
At the same time, we are explicit: technology cannot replace political struggle. No algorithm will organize a strike or build solidarity. Central planning requires strong institutions and active citizens. Technology can be an ally, but people remain the subjects of transformation.
Our method is Marxist: historical materialism and class analysis. We treat these tools seriously and aim to develop them in dialogue with other currents of the left.
The information age
Recognizing that the twenty-first century is the age of information, we position ourselves on a front that will shape the worlds trajectory. Socialism today is not a utopian project. It is the only optimal path of civilizational progress.
We stand at the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution. It is already clear that the market economy has become structurally incapable of driving further development, generating regression rather than progress. Yet it remains dominant, persisting with the inertia of systems that have outlived their usefulness.
The source of this paradox is straightforward: the information age does not automatically mean democratized information. Dominant narratives are monopolized by organized interests. As Robert H. Nelson observed, mainstream pseudo-scientific economics now plays a role analogous to feudal theology. Control over information flows is a key mechanism of system reproduction.
Agitkas task is to take a first step in breaking this monopoly through analysis, demystification, and reclaiming language for describing reality. Without that, neither democracy nor real freedom is possible.
Invitation
Agitka is meant to be a space for thought and debate. We aim to educate, clarify concepts, and provoke reflection. Change begins with understanding and with naming problems and alternatives precisely.
We invite everyone who shares a vision of a more rational, prosperous, and just world. Another world is possible and worth fighting for.
Algorithms are currently tools of domination. We want to make them instruments of universal prosperity. Technology should liberate us from drudgery, not lock us in a digital cage.
If this vision resonates with you, read, discuss, act.
Agitka Editorial Collective