Beyond full employment - Ron Rothbart

Published in Now and After #3, 1978. Unionists, liberals, and leftists call for more jobs, but the revolutionary program is the supersession of alienated labor. Discusses Marx's theory of the surplus population, unemployment, the job as social control, weakening of the tie between income and work, and the abolition of labor.

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Science and practice in Marx's political economy - Ron Rothbart

Published in 1981 in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Discusses Marx's concept of science, his dialectical method, his critique of fetishism, his attempts to resolve the revolutionary and evolutionary (determinisitic) aspects of his theory, and Grossman's and Korsch's attempts to avoid determinism through a turn to subjective factors (working-class self-activity).

In self defence: I demand an explanation - Jaime Balius

Jaime Balius's - editor of El Amigo del Pueblo, the paper of the Friends of Durruti group - angry…

In this world, but not of this world - Gilles Dauvé

Gilles Dauvé discusses his 1972 essay Capitalism and Communism, Marxism and the state capitalist countries of the 20th century, the position of…

Transnational classes and international relations - Kees van der Pijl

This book focuses on an historical perspective on class formation under capitalism and its…