The first and main reason for the KKE's refusal to extend civil marriage to same-sex couples, which enshrines shared parental responsibility, is the commercialization of procreation and adoption. A second, equally important and related reason is that, in practice, the articles of the bill bypass the social right of a child to the motherhood-fatherhood relation as an evolving biosocial relationship. Our Party considers that parenthood is the relationship between a parent and child, which at the individual level reflects existing social relations. The KKE's position is based on the rights of the child, i.e. the child's social need to have ties with its mother and father. This need has an objective basis: the interrelated motherhood-fatherhood relation, resulting from the complementary function of man and woman in the process of procreation. The laws that are enacted must defend this right, not undermine it.

The preachers of “individual rights” have rushed to label the KKE as “homophobic”. They 'll do the same for this article.

Monday the 12th

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ Premier League

• Crystal Palace vs Chelsea

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Tuesday the 13th

⚽ Champions League

First leg of two-legged matches. Round of 16.

• FC Copenhagen vs Manchester City
• RB Leipzig vs Real Madrid

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Wednesday the 14th

⚽ Champions League

First leg of two-legged matches. Round of 16.

• Lazio vs Bayern Munich
• Paris Saint Germain vs Real Sociedad

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Thursday the 15th

🥊 Joseph ‘JoJo’ Diaz vs Jesus Antonio Perez Campos

California time zone. Super Lightweights. Bookies' probabilities about 90% for Diaz. https://box.live/fights/diaz-vs-perez-2/

⚽ Europa League

First leg of two-legged matches. Playoffs to get to the round of 16.

• Feyenoord vs. Roma
• Galatasaray vs. Sparta Prague
• Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Marseille
• Young Boys vs. Sporting Lisbon
• Benfica vs. Toulouse
• Lens vs. SC Freiburg
• AC Milan vs. Rennes
• Sporting Braga vs. Qarabağ

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Friday the 16th

🥊 O'Shaquie Foster vs Abraham Nova for the WBC World Super Featherweight Championship

New York time zone. Foster Wikipedia. Nova wikipedia. Bookies' probabilities about 88% for Foster.

Undercard includes Andres Cortes vs. Bryan Chevalier in the Super Featherweight division. Bookies' probabilities about 86% for Cortes. Details at: https://box.live/fights/foster-vs-nova/

🥊 Adrian Curiel vs Sivenathi Nontshinga for the IBF jr flyweight championship of the world

Oaxaca time zone. This is a rematch after Curiel won in about 4 minutes just a few months ago. Curiel Wikipedia. Nontshinga Wikipedia. The winner is likely to face Christian Araneta in an IBF title eliminator. Bookies' probabilities are near 50:50, which is rare in boxing and exciting. Details at: https://box.live/fights/curiel-vs-nontshinga/

Undercard includes Mauricio Lara vs Daniel Lugo in the Featherweight division. I like Lara (wikipedia a lot: he stopped Josh Warrington and Leigh Wood. Bookies' probabilities about 85% for Lara. Details at: https://box.live/fights/lara-vs-lugo/

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Saturday the 17th

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ Premier League

Seven matches, of which I recommend:

• Brentford vs. Liverpool
• Tottenham Hotspur vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers
• Manchester City vs. Chelsea

UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria

California time zone. Card is subject to change.

Featherweight        Alexander Volkanovski (champ) versus Ilia Topuria – for the Featherweight belt
Middleweight         Robert Whittaker versus Paulo Costa
Welterweight         Geoff Neal versus Ian Garry
Bantamweight         Merab Dvalishvili versus Henry Cejudo
Middleweight         Anthony Hernandez versus Roman Kopylov
    PRELIMS:
Women's Strawweight  Amanda Lemos versus Mackenzie Dern
Heavyweight          Marcos Rogério de Lima versus Justin Tafa
Bantamweight         Rinya Nakamura versus Carlos Vera
Light Heavyweight    Zhang Mingyang versus Brendson Ribeiro
    EARLY PRELIMS:
Welterweight         Josh Quinlan versus Danny Barlow
Welterweight         Oban Elliott versus Val Woodburn
Women's Flyweight    Andrea Lee versus Miranda Maverick

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Sunday the 18th

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚽ Premier League

• Sheffield United vs. Brighton & Hove Albion
• Luton Town vs. Manchester United

⚽🇮🇹 Serie A

• Udinese vs. Cagliari (important to the relegation battle)

Good work so far, crew. We are approaching being ⅓ of the way through Vol.1 and ⅛ of the way through the 3-volume work; we'll cross those marks this week.

Last week we looked at the political struggle between labour and capital, how it played out in real life. We saw how abstract principles of economics lead to lung problems in children.

Don't forget that this is a club: it is a shared activity, it's not only reading, it's something we do together to also build camaraderie. So engage in the comments.

The overall plan is to read Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week.

I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed.

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Just joining us? It'll take you about 13 hours to catch up to where the group is. Use the archives below to help you.

Archives: Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4 – Week 5 – Week 6

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Week 7, Feb 12-18, we are reading from Volume 1: all of Chapters 11, 12, and 13, and then the first 2 sections of Chapter 14

In other words, aim to reach the heading 'The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture' by Sunday

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Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

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Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9C4A100BD61BB2DB9BE26773E4DBC5D

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added, or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself.

Audiobook of Ben Fowkes translation, American accent, male, links are to alternative invidious instances: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9

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Resources

(These are not expected reading, these are here to help you if you so choose)

• Harvey's guide to reading it: https://www.davidharvey.org/media/Intro_A_Companion_to_Marxs_Capital.pdf

• A University of Warwick guide to reading it: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/postgraduate/masters/modules/worldlitworldsystems/hotr.marxs_capital.untilp72.pdf

• Engels' Synopsis of Capital or PDF

• Reading Capital with Comrades: A Liberation School podcast series - https://www.liberationschool.org/reading-capital-with-comrades-podcast/

Qatar - Jordan, 6pm Qatar time on Saturday

Ivory Coast - Nigeria, 8pm Ivorian time on Sunday

Qatar have about a 72% chance to win in Asia, and the African one could go either way. I predict that Arabs will win the Asian cup and West Africans will win the African one.

Qatar are defending champions. Jordan pulled off a 6/1 upset in the semi (14.2% chance) beating South Korea 2-0 and doing it convincingly.

Ivory Coast scraped through a bad 1st round, including a shock 4-0 defeat to Equatorial Guinea, then knocked out potential winned on penalties and Mali in dramatic fashion (a 121st-mimute goal to conch it)

You'll definitely find them on strikeout dot im; use an adblocker as always. And footyfull dot com is likely to have it for the watch-later crowd.