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Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class

Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class, by D. Bryan and M. Rafferty, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan 2006. $ 85; pp. viii, 236 The book is a vitally interesting and innovative approach to finance, focusing on …

Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class

Recentering the Lumpen Question Today

UNDERSTANDING LUMPENIZATION AND BONAPARTISM originally published in Spectre To name a class “lumpenproletariat” is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition …

Recentering the Lumpen Question Today

Marx After Growth #3 The History of Accumulation

The History of Accumulation In the previous lecture on what’s been called the ‘esoteric’ Marx, I explored a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. This ‘esoteric’ Marxism, sometimes called value-form theory, finds …

Marx After Growth #3 The History of Accumulation

Lukács ’ Idea of Communism and its Blind Spot: Money

The three main concepts of Lukács’ famous book History and Class Consciousness   are already contained in the title: History, Class and Consciousness. 1  These three concepts are especially developed in the longest and most important essay of the book, “Reification …

Lukács ’ Idea of Communism and its Blind Spot: Money

The Working Class and the Middle Classes in the Greek Economic Crisis: Allies in a Common Anti-Neoliberal Strategy?

George Economakis and John Milios ABSTRACT On the basis of a Marxist analysis of capitalist relations of classpower and the class configuration in contemporary advanced capitalist societies, the paper investigates the consequences of the recent economic crisis and of the …

The Working Class and the Middle Classes in the Greek Economic Crisis: Allies in a Common Anti-Neoliberal Strategy?

Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality

What becomes of class when residential property prices in major cities around the world accrue more income in a year than the average wage worker? This paper investigates the dynamic of combined wage disinflation and asset price inflation as a …

Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality

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