politcal economy of barbarism

1 min read 2022-02-22 00:42:43

Some questions are just too sensitive to entertain, I guess

“Shut up and get back to work” –The Mods After a trying interview at the hands of professional right-wing provocateur and bomb-thrower, Jessie

2 min read 2022-02-21 01:45:37

Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) I felt that this comment from Tony Leuwenhoek deserved a fuller reply than I gave it in a previous post: Thomas,

2 min read 2022-02-14 04:10:40

There is no question that Deng Xiao Peng will go down either as the greatest Marxist innovator of the 20th century… … or just its biggest

2 min read 2022-01-10 01:12:26

I am not sure I fully understand the argument in Andrea Ricci’s, “Value and Unequal Exchange in International Trade” in its entirety, so bear

2 min read 2022-01-10 01:12:26

I am not sure I fully understand the argument in Andrea Ricci’s, “Value and Unequal Exchange in International Trade” in its entirety, so bear

1 min read 2021-12-28 23:57:01

Simulations of epidemic spread show decline of infection with a schedule of 5 day lockdown and 2 work days every week. blue regions indicate periods

1 min read 2021-09-23 04:13:39

For the past two years or so, Washington has pumped almost 6 trillion dollars of deficit spending into the so-called US economy. Yet after this

1 min read 2021-07-14 23:16:00

I have been reading a paper, Marxist Political Economy in the Age of Inflation, by Marxist theorist, Vytautas Liutkus (VL). At least in part, the

1 min read 2021-07-11 05:17:08

I have been reading a paper, Marxist Political Economy in the Age of Inflation, by Marxist theorist, Vytautas Liutkus (VL). At least in part, the

1 min read 2021-07-04 23:24:48

I have been reading a paper, Marxist Political Economy in the Age of Inflation, by Marxist theorist, Vytautas Liutkus (VL). At least in part, the

3 min read 2021-03-08 01:51:16

Wikipedia has this discussion of the formula Grossman introduces in his reconstruction of Marx’s labor theory of value concerning the number of

24 min read 2021-03-02 00:28:09

From Wikipedia: Shekel or sheqel is an ancient Near Eastern coin, usually of silver. A shekel was first a unit of weight—very roughly 11 grams

12 min read 2020-06-01 06:26:47

I have been reading this argument for why the CoViD-19 emergency will not lead to collapse of capitalist accumulation: “No, we’re not heading

4 min read 2020-05-08 22:02:10

Continued from here At one point, I said the DSA author’s People’s Recovery program was “a description of the United States (six months to a

3 min read 2020-05-07 03:48:29

Continued from here Now, here’s a question: if you agree with the DSA on this basic analysis, why would you have anything to do with this group of