@"Maw" - OK, quickie reviews of Smith's Imperialism and Suwandi's Value Chains: basically both books are really good compliments to one another. Smith...
God the democrats are really going to be faffing about on a topic that affects exactly zero lives on the day-to-day while the Republicans watch on in ...
Crises are capitalists' wet dream. Every time there is one - without tipping over into full blown revolution, which is the only proper alternative - t...
Here you go: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii123/articles/robert-brenner-escalating-plunder Incidentally, Americans who have not read this article ...
New Years reading: https://i.imgur.com/Xmg59nZ.jpg Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin - The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Emp...
Every time someone equates capitalism with "free markets" - usually an American - a capitalist laughs at having successfully propagandized yet another...
Nah, I'm not wasting my time with you. I'm just quite happy to point out that your understanding of a socio-economic system is limited to "hur-dur wor...
Stock buybacks are happening because the ROI in them is higher than the ROI in non-financials. No need to look to ideological factors. Follow the mone...
Cool, thanks for ignoring literally everything I wrote - again. Good to know that you cannot read and talking to you is a complete waste of time becau...
There is exactly zero link, in capitalism, between "cleverness" and reward, or "risk" and reward for that matter. I'll say it again: capitalism reward...
I don't understand why you think it is just the 'third world' that is affected by this. One of most palpable effects of offshoring - driven by the rel...
Sure, and this is what kings and lords said to their serfs too - and they were largely right. Which is exactly the problem. It is all the more reason ...
I do not have concrete solutions and I do not have final answers. I simply have principles, and I hew to the apparently radical idea that a better wor...
Well, in a thread on "overpopulation", the point is simply to focus the problem on the right issues, rather than the wrong ones. In any case, you don'...
Amazing. You extrapolated a whole line of reasoning from literally nothing I said and then, having made up a fantasy, said that this fantasy - that yo...
Why do you think so? The removal of a capitalist class who owns the means of production does not entail any technical change in how those means functi...
Why would anyone want to 'unravel' these things? What is being called for is a change in the regime of property. It's an issue of control, not technic...
So your point is that we can't change the system because we can't change the system. This is glib but are you really saying anything more than that? A...
The point is to change the options available. And again, this is just a brand new point you've brought up that has nothing to do with your previous po...
But this is simply not true. Literally anyone who works for a wage employs those means every time they go to work. The 'seperation' is a legal and con...
End of year list! 46 Books, 16 not by white men. Definitely taken a turn towards political economy and history this year, and I think the plan will be...
This is one of those memes that gets rolled out every now and then in defense of capitalism, but it could not be more wrong. In fact that this is so c...
Small businesses are in most cases even more exploitative of labour than big business. They are more likely to engage in off-the-books employment, whi...
Yeah, nah, you just thought could Google your way to telling me what the 'real world' consisted of despite knowing nothing about the subject you're ta...
The Heritage Foundation is right-wing rag whose measure of "freedom" is just how much markets are allowed to operate without any so-called interferenc...
A socio-economic system in which one class, the working class, has been seperated from the means of production, which are controlled and owned instead...
I'm just saying: between planetary eugenics and the end of private property, one of these stands out as far more harmful than the other. It'd be commu...
Just saying this doesn't make it true. Ending a regime of private property doesn't inherently involve "a great deal of suffering and death". In fact i...
That's a dumb aim. It's ought to be change our patterns of consumption so that we don't end life on the planet as we know it. Our measures of "the wor...
Please, don't confuse the CNN-"left" for the left kthx. Jan 6 is nice and spicy. Lots of spectacle. Good visuals. Fits nicely into a Harry Potter view...
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