Marx
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Study Guide For those applying to the School of Anti-Economics By S. Artesian
Varoufakis is playing a part in the recuperation, the re-composition of capitalism by the loyal pretend-opposition. He flaunts his ignorance of Marx as “Marxist economics” when in fact Marx’s work is the end of “economics,” as it was the end of “philosophy.” He thinks he, the minister to finance, embodies the prospects for an “enlightened… Continue reading
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Video: Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism
On the second episode of Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, Vijay Prashad talks about growing up in India and coming to the realization that liberalism could never eliminate poverty Continue reading
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Reading Marx in Cairo By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
In Marx’s book we find a timeless grasp of farcical repetitions in history, by comparing the French coup of December 1851 by a nephew of the great Napoleon who, even though he lacked the minutest genius of his uncle, called himself Emperor Napoleon III. From Marx’s point of view, the 1851 coup was a caricature… Continue reading
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Racism, Drugs and Crime By Patricia Murphy-Robinson
16 April 2013 Today, I learned with great sorrow of the death of a woman who had a very profound affect on my life. Born I think, on exactly the same month, day and year as Fidel Castro, Patricia Murphy-Robinson died on 11 April 2013. I knew that she’d been ill having spoken to her Continue reading
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Books: Transitional Demands from 1695 By Carl Rowlands
In the work of John Bellers, dating from the 1690s to the 1720s, we can see the earliest calls for nothing less than a National Health Service, a peaceful European state-of-states, vocationally-based alleviation of unemployment and poverty and—bravely in such a period—a plea for the richest to be held responsible for the condition of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 