The ongoing U.S. project of military control over the planet by its armed forces, supported by their NATO lieutenants, the erosion of democracy in the imperialist core countries, and the medievalistic rejection of democracy within Southern countries in revolt (taking the form of “fundamentalist” semi-religious delusions disseminated by political Islam, political Hinduism, and political [...]
A spectre is haunting capitalism: the spectre of twenty-first century socialism. Increasingly the outlines of this spectre are becoming clear, and we are able to see enough to understand what it is not. The only thing that is not clear at this point is whether this spectre is actually an earthly presence. Consider first [...]
The Arab uprising goes from strength to strength. When the Egyptian protestors stormed the Israeli Embassy in Cairo last week, they showed that the power of protest can prevail over docile diplomacy. Across the Arab World, protest power has shown its effectiveness. The achievements are incontestable. Yet, in the world of the excluded, the Arab [...]
On: The need for renewal of the Marxian framework, the possibilty of socialism and the concept of revolution M Keshavarz: Before I start asking about the objective possibility / the real possibility of socialism, I would like to ask about Marx. What aspects of Marx’s theory are vulnerable or need to be renewed? [...]
On: Total social capital, totality of labour, labour theory of value and the question of social agency of transformation M. Keshavarz: In your opinion which of the Marxian models can explain the capitalist crises of the modern age? – The model of reproduction of total social capital? – The model of overproduction? – [...]
The way Egyptian scholar and researcher Samir Amin sees it, nothing will be the same as before in the Arab world: protest movements will challenge both the internal social order of Arab countries and their places in the regional and global political chessboard. -Interview with Samir Amin by Hassane Zerrouky Hassane Zerrouky: How do you [...]
European and U.S. Governments Continue Wrecking Their Economies All money managers’ eyes were on the U.S. jobs report this morning after the U.S. stock market yesterday suffered its biggest drop since 2009 and panic surged through financial markets worldwide. The headline numbers were not as bad as many had feared: the U.S. economy added 117,000 [...]
“What people do respond to favourably is the idea of local decision-making and the ability to make the decisions that affect their lives – precisely because that option has been removed in advanced capitalist countries. Those are precisely the elements needed for the battle of ideas in order to struggle against barbarism.” By [...]
“It is a massive contradiction when you declare a very large portion of the population superfluous. This portion of the population is not going to remain always meek and compliant and resigned to the conditions to which it is condemned. So things are happening, things are changing. But these changes will have to go [...]
In what follows, ‘capital’, following Marx, refers to a historically specific mode of production (based on the producers’ separation from the conditions of production) and the corresponding social relation between producers and the owners of the conditions of production – the basis of the modern society. In this situation the conditions of production (including [...]