Monday, Feb 6th 2012
Davos dilemma | Michael Roberts
The majority of those at Davos think that Capitalism isn’t working, but don’t feel there is a need to change anything because its working rather well for them. It’s up to those not in the 1% then to change it.
The strategists of capital are attending their annual jamboree in the [...]
World economy: where are we now? | Michael Roberts
The growth forecasts just published by the World Bank confirm Michael Roberts arguments that the world economy is not going to experience a double-dip recession, but will remain in what he calls a prolonged depression where growth is weak and unemployment continues to rise. The Eurozone, however, will [...]
Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci
“The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a poor consciousness of class (understanding of the state exists not only when one defends it but also when one attacks [...]
Michael Perelman | Occupy Chico State
Good interview with Michael Perleman for his local NPR station which he would have given to a Occupied Chico State teach-in broadcast if the location for the talk hadn’t been locked down due to a ‘bomb scare’. Perelman, who’s the author of the highly recommended Invisible Handcuffs talks about [...]
Michael Roberts | Europe: default or devaluation?
Marxist economist Michael Roberts has an excellent post which goes through the arguments made at a plenary session at the Historical Materialism conference last weekend. The most interesting part of the discussion, and the most heated, was on whether or not the left should advocate that a peripheral Eurozone [...]
Book Review: Prison Notebooks Vol 1, Antonio Gramsci, Columbia University Press (2011)
“Culture is a fundamental concept of socialism because it integrates and concretizes the vague concept of freedom of thought.” Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s cultural awareness permeates every single reflection recorded in his notebooks. Arrested and imprisoned in 1926 on conspiracy charges of an alleged attempt [...]
Book Review:Diary of an Escape - Antonio Negri (Polity Press, 2010)
“The recent days have shown the enormous gap that exists between our capacity to produce truth and the court’s inert expression of its unbelievable desire to repress it.”
Antonio Negri.
A discussion of truth in any situation may well be defined as a paradox. Truth - [...]
Étienne Balibar – Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism | Backdoor Broadcasting Company
Facinating talk by Étienne Balibar author of The Philosophy of Marx (Verso) who provides an updating of his thoughts on how Marx is considered now.
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Title: Eleven Theses on Marx and Marxism
Introduction by Peter Osborne
Talk by [...]
This recording is from the opening of the Centre for the Study of Working Class Lives, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, which took place last Friday.
Have a listen to Zweig’s address to the conference, it’s great.
Michael Zweig, Glasgow, 11 March 2011
For more on Zweig, here’s something I wrote a couple of years ago.
Following the Tsunami that hit the Irish economy, Professor Leo Panitch provides an analysis of the causes and consequences from a Marxist perspective.
Leo Panitch is the author of many books, including the recent In and Out of Crisis and Renewing Socialism and is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University. He also co-edits the Socialist [...]
