Catastrophism, disaster management and sustainable submission - Rene Riesel and Jaime Semprun In this book first published in 2008, Jaime Semprun and René Riesel examine the…
The apotheosis of money: the structural limits of capital valorization, casino capitalism and the global financial crisis - Robert Kurz In this 1995 essay, Robert Kurz examines “fictitious capital”, “unproductive labor”…
The measure of value under paper money currency – Wolf Motylev appeared in Pod Znamenem Marksizma (Under the Banner of Marxism), 1922, no.11-12, 164-70 p. This article followed on Kautsky's 'Gold, Paper Currency and Commodity', which Motylev translated into Russian.
Marx's models and actual capitalism Blog post about Marx's Capital, what it is and isn't, partially in reply to Joseph Kay.
Critical introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's economic works - Wolf Motylev Translated preface to the Russian fifth edition of Rosa Luxemburg's works The Accumulation of Capital and her Anti-Critique.
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).
On the invention of money: notes on sex, adventure, monomaniacal sociopathy and the true function of economics - David Graeber Anthropologist David Graeber responds to critics who insist that money evolved from…
The end of politics: theses on the crisis of the regulatory system of the commodity form - Robert Kurz In this essay first published in 1994, Robert Kurz examines the history of …
Crises of capitalism - David Harvey Excellent animation narrated by David Harvey in which he explains the reasons for the current global economic crisis.
'Logic and Economics of the Class Struggle' by Guy Aldred Pamphlet by Guy Aldred, published by his Bakunin Press. Second Edition, 1908.
Return of the crisis: Part 2 - the nature and significance of the crisis The second part of Aufheben's analysis of the financial crisis.
The German war economy and state socialism - Robert Kurz In this excerpt from his book, The Collapse of Modernization (1991), Robert Kurz discusses the role…