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30 April 2014— The Real News Network
Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. And welcome to this edition of The Hudson Report. Now joining us is Michael Hudson. Michael is a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His two newest books are The Bubble and Beyond and Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents. Continue reading this...
26 April 2014 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
Furthermore, Marx’s analysis, showing that the conditions that determine the tendency of rate of profit to decline are the conditions that accompany the increase in the mass of profits is developed on the basis of the consideration of the total social capital.
Marx is referring to the total social capital; he is analyzing the development of capital as a totality.
13 February 2014 — openDemocracy
The Arab world, after analyzing the nature of states in the Middle East, needs to find its own indigenous path to democracy, based on its own unique historical, and societal conditions.
7 October 2013 — International Socialism
There has been a significant revival of interest among the radical left in “big picture” questions of socialist strategy that, as Mark L. Thomas has pointed out, represents a return to “important debates of the left largely absent over the last three decades”.1
22 October 2013 — TomDispatch
14 October 2013 — Our NHS
As the NHS groans under cuts and chaotic reorganisation, government bodies are calling for yet more ‘radical change‘ and ‘difficult decisions’. Will their answers be hospital closures and privatisations? The new People’s Inquiry is calling for evidence to support a different way forward.
15 October 2013 — The Wolf Report: confidential Analysis for the anti-investor
11 October 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 887
On 9 September 2013, a red-green alliance led by the social democratic Labour Party lost the Norwegian general elections. Only two weeks later, the German Social Democrats (SPD) only came a poor second with just over 25 per cent of the votes in their country’s general elections. Even if it ends up as the junior partner in a grand coalition, the clear winner was the centre-right Christian Democratic Party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, which missed only narrowly an absolute majority in parliament. In this article, I will assess the general situation of social democratic parties in industrialized countries and speculate about their potential future role.
13 September 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 877
Why did ‘real socialism’ and, in particular the Soviet Union, fall? Let me note a few explanations that have been offered. With respect to the Soviet Union, one very interesting explanation that has been suggested is that it’s all the fault of Mikhail Gorbachev. And not simply the errors of Gorbachev but the treachery. Those who offer this explanation rely in particular upon a document which is sometimes described as his confession. This document begins as follows:
I just watched the YouTube video presentation of this paper. The paper and his most recent book had been recently referred to me by a friend. Here is the comment I put at the YouTube site: “This was an excellent talk. I look forward to reading the books. Humility and compassion are required, but we should indeed ‘build it now.’ Socialism needs to be deeply democratic, with a world social compact to ensure everyone’s basic needs? are met. The gross distortions often called ‘real’ socialism are state capitalism. The vanguard hierarchy/dictatorship and managers often become rich, and the people are alienated. We need global ‘garden variety’ democratic socialism with workers’ gardens.” I look forward to learning more. In solidarity, Brother Francisco
5 September 2013 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
1. This past July, the EU parliament voted to repeal the law capping bonuses and other payouts to its poor, exploited, downtrodden, huddled masses of investment bankers. The deciding votes securing the repeal were cast by two representatives from Greece, both of whom just happened to be members of the Communist Party of Greece, the Kommounistikó Kómma Elládas (KKE). Said the sponsor of the original legislating that had capped the bonuses, “The Stalinists were half the problem.”
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