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Saito: the metabolic rift and de-growth communism
Kohei Saito is an associate professor at Tokyo University and an erudite Marxist scholar. Not a candidate for a best-seller in the non-fiction book world, you might think. But you would be wrong in this case. Saito’s new book (currently in Japanese), which analyses the relationship between capitalism and the planet, has been a smashContinue reading “Saito: the metabolic rift and de-growth communism”
The wage price spiral refuted
Do ‘excessive’ wage rises lead to rising inflation and thus drive economies into a wage-price spiral? Back in 1865, at the International Working Men’s Association, Marx debated with IWMA Council member Thomas Weston. Weston, a leader of the carpenter’s union, argued that asking for increased wages was futile because all that would happen would beContinue reading “The wage price spiral refuted“
Historical Materialism Conference – monopoly, imperialism, inflation and Ukraine
As usual it won’t be possible to report on all the many sessions at this year’s London Historical Materialism conference that took place last weekend. I could only attend a few sessions and concentrated, naturally, on ones to do with Marxist economics. Also, I was participating in two sessions myself that clashed with others thatContinue reading “Historical Materialism Conference – monopoly, imperialism, inflation and Ukraine”
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