Apologies for not having posting something sooner, but chapter two <http://www.marxists.org/archive/grossman/1929/breakdown/ch02.htm> of Henryk Grossman's...
... [..] ... One of the counteracting tendencies would be pushing wages below the value of labour power, or, for another one, introducing labour-saving ...
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Apr 10, 2008 3:53 pm
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I strongly believe in Marxist education. One of my main criticisms of the "Marxist-Leninist" left has been its tendency to reduce the ranks to passivity. You...
(from PEN-L) Louis, This is an interesting article. I'm glad that Grossman was not the sort who believed that capitalism would drive itself (without active ...
I haven't had time to read in detail, much less comment, but I wanted to say concerning Capital that the work is a LOT easier to read backward than forward. ...
II think reading and understanding Capital (especially Vol 3) is the most important thing that a revolutionary can do to equip his or herself to engage in the...
The other day Steve Palmer made some interesting observations <http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2008w16/msg00118.htm> on Marxmail about the...
This just showed up as a comment on my blog. I had mentioned Bill Jeffries in my article as a critic of the kind of doom-and-gloom economics of Hillel Ticktin...
"There might be counter-tendencies that allow the capitalist system to escape a crisis based on the over-accumulation of capital, but sooner or later the grim...
... The book seems to be a variation on the "globalization" thesis, namely that the nation-state no longer has the importance it once had. The most "leftist"...
I received this a couple of days ago from Marxmail subscriber Phil Ferguson: Perhaps the most important thing about Grossmann is not that he has a theory of...
I am departing from the practice of using material that can be found on the Internet in order to allow you to read a substantial section of Ernest Mandel's...
Thanks Louis - I look forward to the discussion on imperialism. Marc ... The book seems to be a variation on the "globalization" thesis, namely that the...
This week I spent some time mulling over how to introduce the topic of imperialism. Fortuitously, I stumbled across an excellent introduction to the topic by...
(This is a follow up to part one of Martin Thomas's article <http://archive.workersliberty.org/publications/readings/2001/empire.htm\ l> that I posted last...
... For some reason, I seem to have missed the first part - the latest post I've received was from Mandel's 'Late capitalism'. I tried to access the...
Joonas Laine
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May 8, 2008 1:28 pm
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Take a look at this article in Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/couesbouc05082008.html Without mentioning Karl Marx or the general formula for...
I'd like to suggest that, if possible, it would be useful to try to use concrete examples, particularly from the present. For instance reading this stuff...
David Picón Ã...
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May 9, 2008 11:57 am
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... I totally agree with this, but I think it is important to try to cover the "classical" literature. Maybe the best bet would be to try to correlate the...
... In Martin Thomas' article I noted his criticism towards the conception that export of capital would be THE defining characteristic of imperialism: "It...
Joonas Laine
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May 9, 2008 4:50 pm
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... At some point, I will be presenting my views on imperialism. Consistent with my view that it does not make sense to talk about capitalism in a single...
This post is a little late since I had to attend to some personal business this week. My hopes are that the flow of posts will increase in tempo now that we...
To witness this debate playing out as we read, one need only turn to the struggle of the Zapatistas: "... for indigenous Indians of Chiapas, Mexico's adoption...
On the question of Luddites, here's a good quote from Marx (Capital Vol I, Chapter 15): "It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to ...
Introduction to Marxism class"The proletariat goes through various stages of development. With its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie. At first the...
From: "johnaimani" <johnaimani@...> "There is no doubt that modern socialism, as we conceive it, needs the modern-day massive productive forces, and...
David Picón Ã...
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May 20, 2008 1:26 pm
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... We will get into much more detail about this when we consider "dependency theory" but the problem is not just slavery, genocide, etc. You also have to take...
... My thoughts on this (and maybe a bit extra, too).. I think objective progress (and what is considered as such) is a tricky concept. I don't know.. even...
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