capitalism
Modern capitalism and revolution - Paul Cardan
Paul Cardan (Cornelius Castoriadis) attempts to describe and analyse the features and dynamics of the fully-industrialised capitalist societies of the early 1960s.
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Absolute Property - G. Kay & J. Mott
An analysis of the nature and development of private property in relation to the state in class society, and the political prevention of the abundance that modern productive capacities make possible.
"[i]If the productive capacities already deployed were oriented towards need, necessary labour would be reduced to a minimum, so that nothing would stand between men and what they need to live. Money and the law of labour would lose their force, and, as its foundations crumbled, the political state would wither away.
The new world order - Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discusses the New World Order - tri-polar economically, three major economic powers, the United States still the biggest, but declining, relatively, but uni-polar militarily, one military force.
The following is a transcript of a speech given at a benefit for The Middle East Children's Alliance (president, Barbara Lubin) and KPFA radio (manager, Pat Scott).
The topic, as you saw, is The New World Order with primary concern for the Middle East.
capitalism
Capitalism is the system based on exchange of commodities, private ownership by a few of the means of production and the exploitation of wage workers. Wage workers are paid less than the value of our labour; our "surplus value" is expropriated from us and turned into profit and expanded capital.
Whither the world - Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic
Gilles Dauvé & Karl Nesic of the Troploin journal discuss the changing nature of capitalism and class struggle in the globalised 'post-Fordist' era.
WHAT? WHY? HOW?1
- 1. This is a slightly modified version of G.Dauvé and K.Nesic's Il va falloir attendre I Bref rapport sur l'état du monde, troploin, 2002 (also available on our site). We've left out nearly all notes that refer to French language books and magazines.
Re-visiting the east ... and popping in at Marx's - Gilles Dauvé
Apart from North Korea and Cuba, no country calls itself socialist any more. So why bother about old debates on the nature of the USSR? Since capitalism rules the world, what else is there to know?! A great deal.
It’s crucial to understand why Russia was capitalist in 1980, or 1930, or 1920, if we wish to understand what capitalism really is, and what can and must be revolutionized in Russia as well as in Britain in the XXIst century.
Libertarian communism, capitalism and direct action - an introduction
libcom.org's basic introduction to our understanding of the world as it is, what we think can be done to make it better, and how a libertarian communist society could function.
What is capitalism?
Chapter 1 of Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR - (Neil Fernandez)
Chapter 1 of Neil Fernandez's Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR - A Marxist Theory, Ashgate, Aldershot UK, 1997, which also serves as a useful historical overview of modern radical theory. From the book's introduction:
Capitalism under fire - International Herald Tribune
In this age of "La Pensée Unique" and corporate control of the mass media it's rare to find articles that get through the editing control net. But this from the International Herald Tribune no less, is one of those rare ones.
Capitalism Under Fire
"The protests' ostensible purpose is to force withdrawal of a minor change in this French government's employment policy, but they have taken on a radically different significance."
Grey September - Gilles Dauvé, Karl Nesic and J-P Carasso
The underpaid washer-up and the overpaid white collar who both died in the World Trade Center died as footsoldiers of a system that exploited their death (treating them as heroes of free trade and the free world) as it had exploited their life. They had little time to appreciate the much vaunted security they'd bought in exchange for their submission.
