A guest post (from the end of last year) by Guglielmo Carchedi on Michael Roberts’s blog^[CR24] makes an attempt to refute the framework put forth in Emmanuel Farjoun & Moshé Machover’s Laws of Chaos (1983) (henceforth LoC).^[FM83] Paul Cockshott responds on his own blog^[Coc24] in defence of LoC’s approach, and Carchedi fires back with an addendum.

All involved are avowed “Marxists”, and the result is generally illustrative of the level of (mis)understanding of Marx’s own work that’s typical of so‐called “Marxists”. By investigating said exchange, this post begins a brief series, which will only touch upon LoC in the second instalment; that is, the present post neither attacks nor defends LoC.