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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Noam Chomsky on Marxism

Noam Chomsky Videos Noam chomsky conference noam chomsky debate noam chomsky conversation noam chomsky interview Noam Chomsky Videos Noam ...
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Failure of marxism - David Harvey

Failure of marxism - David Harvey.
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John Bellamy Foster answers three questions on Marxism and ecology | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

John Bellamy Foster answers three questions on Marxism and ecology | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | real utopias | Scoop.it
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Capitalism and Anwar Shaikh

Capitalism and Anwar Shaikh | real utopias | Scoop.it
The most important book on Marxist economics this year will be Anwar Shaikh’s Capitalism – competition, conflict, crises. As one of the world’s leading Marxist economists, Anwar Shaikh, has taught at The New School for Social Research for more than 30 years, authored three books and six-dozen articles.  This is his most ambitious work.  As…
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Imperialism and super exploitation

Imperialism and super exploitation | real utopias | Scoop.it
A review of Imperialism in the 21st century by John Smith, published by the Monthly Review Press. John Smith’s book is a powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people in what used to be called the Third World and is now called the ‘emerging’ or ‘developing’ economies by mainstream economics (and…
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Changing the rules or changing the game?

Changing the rules or changing the game? | real utopias | Scoop.it
I’ve just been to a lecture by Professor Joseph Stiglitz as part of a series organised by the British Labour Party on ‘new economics’.  The lecture series is designed to raise the level of economic debate and for the new range of economic advisors to the Labour Party to come up with ideas.  Joseph Stiglitz…
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G20 and the mainstream solutions to a global slowdown

G20 and the mainstream solutions to a global slowdown | real utopias | Scoop.it

econThe weekend meeting of the finance ministers of the top 20 economies in the world in Shanghai, China was a dismal affair.  Before the meeting, the IMF painted a grim picture of the state of the global economy.  In its, Global Prospects and Policy Challenges, the IMF economists warned that it would be reducing its forecasts for…

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Investment, investment, investment

Investment, investment, investment | real utopias | Scoop.it
This blog continually hammers home the view that it is investment not consumption that is the key to economic growth.  Fluctuations in business investment in a predominantly business, profit-making economy decide, in the first analysis, whether output expands or contracts; whether there is a boom or slump.  This view is contrary to that of Keynesian economics,…
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Is the US economy heading into recession?

Is the US economy heading into recession? | real utopias | Scoop.it
The debate within mainstream economists and between those economists working for financial institutions continues.  The stock and bond markets appear to be pricing in the real possibility of the US economy dropping into recession (as defined by two consecutive quarters of contraction in real GDP) in 2016. However, the majority view of mainstream economics is…
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Horror Film—The Decline of Capitalism Through the Lens - In Defense of Marxism

In an article on World War I, Lenin once remarked that, “Capitalist society is and has always been horror without end.” In discussing the early development of capitalism in his classic, Capital, Marx said that upon its arrival in history “capital ...
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In Praise of Marx - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)

In Praise of Marx - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) | real utopias | Scoop.it
You don't understand this capital thinker as well as you think you do; and he understood you better than you think he did.
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The Sharing Economy, the Future of Jobs, and “PostCapitalism” - part three - In Defense of Marxism

In the final part of his series on the rise of the sharing economy, Adam Booth reviews Paul Mason's new book, PostCapitalism, about the impact of information technology and its contradictory contribution within the crisis-ridden capitalism system.
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Japan: double-dip

Japan: double-dip | real utopias | Scoop.it
The recent signing of the TransPacificPartnership (TPP) will benefit American imperialism considerably.  But the media has latched onto TPP as the saving grace for Japanese prime minister Abe’s ‘Ab...
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The Sharing Economy, the Future of Jobs, and “PostCapitalism” - part one - In Defense of Marxism

The Sharing Economy, the Future of Jobs, and “PostCapitalism” - part one - In Defense of Marxism | real utopias | Scoop.it
In the first of a three-part article, Adam Booth examines the rise of the sharing economy, which has featured heavily in the media because of firms like AirBnB and Uber.
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Capitalism in the 21st century - The Express Tribune

Capitalism in the 21st century - The Express Tribune | real utopias | Scoop.it
Marx’s vision of a classless society shaped the 20th century, inspiring the battle between communism and capitalism
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Relevance of Marx - The Statesman

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What has precisely shaped the world as we see it in the 21st century? The prompt answer, to which even Left  intellectuals subscribe, would be the collapse of Communism. How would one describe the new age?
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Russia 2.4: Overview of Marxist Theory

Briefly describes the main points of Marxist theory as an ideology in competition with anarchism after the 1917 Revolution, including the labor theory of value, the ...
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Primitive accumulation of capital

In Marxist economics and preceding theories, the problem of primitive accumulation (also called previous accumulation, original accumulation) of capital ...
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Rethinking Capital

Rethinking Capital | real utopias | Scoop.it
Former Secretary of State for Health Stephen Dorrell, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and Marxist political theorist Alex Callinicos reimagine capitalism.
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Karl Marx Was Right

Filmed at the Royal Geographical society on 9th April 2013. We can't say Karl Marx didn't warn us: . Tom Woods and the Mises Institute's Peter Klein respond to ...
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Karl Marx and Marxism

via YouTube Capture. Moral Foundations of Politics (PLSC 118) Today, Professor Shapiro continues his discussion of Enlightenment theory of Karl Marx, ...
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It's a long-term decline in the rate of profit - and I am not joking!

It's a long-term decline in the rate of profit - and I am not joking! | real utopias | Scoop.it

I have been attending a two-day workshop on the current state of capitalism from a Marxist view point. This was organised by Alex Callinicos at King’s College, London University who managed to collect a number of Marxist scholars from the UK and Europe to come and present some papers to be followed by discussion and debate among participants.

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Class 04 Reading Marx's Capital Vol I with David Harvey

Class 4 Chapters 4-6. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.
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Marxism of a special type - Mail & Guardian Online

Marxism of a special type - Mail & Guardian Online | real utopias | Scoop.it
His dissident views made him a renegade communist, but a new biography confirms Harold Wolpe as an influential radical voice.
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“A Period of Intense Debate about Marxist Philosophy”: An Interview with Étienne Balibar

“A Period of Intense Debate about Marxist Philosophy”: An Interview with Étienne Balibar | real utopias | Scoop.it
Barricade across the rue d’Ulm, in front of the École normale supérieur, May 1968.
 
This text was first pub­lished in L’Humanité on March 13, 2015.
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