economics

Exploring Marx's Capital - Jacques Bidet

This volume, originally published in French under the title 'Que faire du Capital?', offers a new interpretation of Marx’s great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx’s theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a ‘pure’ economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an economic and a political aspect, neither of these being separable from the other.

In Marx's laboratory: critical interpretations of the Grundrisse

In Marx’s Laboratory. Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse provides a critical analysis of the Grundrisse as a crucial stage in the development of Marx’s critique of political economy. Stressing both the achievements and limitations of this much-debated text, and drawing upon recent philological advances, this volume attempts to re-read Marx’s 1857-58 manuscripts against the background of Capital, as a ‘laboratory’ in which Marx first began to clarify central elements of his mature problematic.

Behind the crisis: Marx's dialectics of value and knowledge - Guglielmo Carchedi

Much has been written since Capital was first published, and more recently after the demise of the Soviet Union and the consequent triumph of neoliberalism, about the irrelevance, inconsistency, and obsoleteness of Marx. This has been attributed to his unworkable method of inquiry.

Money and totality: a macro-monetary interpretation of Marx's logic in Capital and the end of the 'transformation problem' - Fred Moseley

Presents a comprehensive new 'macro-monetary' interpretation of Marx’s logical method in Capital, based on substantial textual evidence.

A critique of Marxism - Sam Dolgoff

1983 critique by Sam Dolgoff of Marxian theory of economic determinism, the state and Marxist views on the early socialistic labor movement, peasantry and the free commune.

Retort Vol. 3, No. 3 (Winter 1947)

The Vol. 3, No. 3 (Winter 1947) issue of Retort, an anarchist publication produced out of Bearsville, New York from 1942-1951.

Kapitalo: Karlo Markso

La Kapitalo: Kritiko de la politika ekonomio
Unua volumo
Libro I:
La produktadprocezo de la kapitalo
Monda

GM and Harry Wilson: Corporate raiding in the 21st century

The collapse of GM meant disaster for thousands of auto workers, it also meant opportunity for corporate raiders like Harry Wilson.

Value and its abolition - Bruno Astarian

The attached text is an abridged translation of 'L'abolition de la valeur', to be published in 2016 by Editions Entremonde, Genève. The text has been published in the US as part of a book by Bruno Astarian and Gilles Dauvé: Everything must go - the abolition of value, Ardent Press, January 2016.

Volume 6 Issue 11

Issue of Mother Earth from January 1912. Articles by "MB" are written by Max Baginski.