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The Contradictions of the Green Revolution - Harry Cleaver

US academic Harry Cleaver's polemic against the 'green' technocratic agricultural developments in post-WWII capitalism. In PDF format.

Work is still the central issue - Harry Cleaver

Text by US academic Harry Cleaver, showing why work is still central to today's society, and that a Marxist economic analysis is still relevant.

Work is Still the Central Issue!*
New Words for New Worlds

Study Guide for Capital

This set of articles form the basis for a study guide to the entirity of Capital Vol 1. It starts with chapter 2, as Chapter 1 is covered in Cleaver's book "Reading Capital Politically".

libcom, 2005

Food, famine and the international crisis - Harry Cleaver

This article by Harry Cleaver describes the technological development and introduction of high-yield grains into South-East Asia as a method of controlling class struggle.

Since it runs to over 25000 words, we present it here in its original online format of PDF (270kb).

Marx's crisis theory as a theory of class struggle - Harry Cleaver

Marx's Crisis Theory as a Theory of Class Struggle

Peter Bell and Harry Cleaver
The preface is available below, or the full article may be viewed as a PDF

Preface (2002)
Theories of crisis have always been intensely political. Different views of capitalist development and breakdown have always shaped, and been shaped by, political strategies. In the early and mid-1970s the onset of a crisis of Keynesian policy, and hence theory, brought on by an international cycle of working class struggle, led to a widespread preoccupation with "crisis theory" in both capitalist and anti-capitalist circles. While capitalist theorists struggled to find ways to restore control and accumulation, the Left gloated and said, once again, that it was all inevitable and dusted off a variety of old theories to prove it. This essay was written as the first chapter of a book intended as an intervention in the debates of those times.

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