The systemic order of the capital economy is generated in and by continuous disorder: just as order cannot be equated with the optimum of regularity, disorder cannot be identified with the absence of order or with pure chaos. According to …
Notes on Anwar Shaikh: Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
Already for Marx, an important consequence concerning the extraction of surplus value in commodity production is that surplus value is transformed into what we call today an asset. The asset in this context is a means by which surplus value …
How Marxism today has to read Das Kapital and how it has to analyze the current capital relations.
Wenn ich grob einschätzen sollte, wie sich das Verhältnis von Vernunft und Geschichte bei Marx darstellt, würde ich folgendes sagen: Das Kapitalverhältnis gilt Marx als notwendiges Übel, weil ohne seine Errungenschaften offenbar kein Verein freier Menschen möglich ist. Wo …
This article sets out the foundations of an axiomatic theory of value and money. read here
The question of the origins or genesis of capitalism preoccupied thewriters of the so-called German Historical School and led to fiercedisputes between them in the first three decades of thetwentieth century. Its “background” was Marx’s theory ofcapitalism and its genesis …
published by Palgrave The world economy is still in a phase of secular stagnation with persistently low growth rates of real gross domestic product.[1] The postwar litanies of boundless economic growth repeatedly preached by the representatives of capital and the …
Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is …
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
The question of the book is how a radical critique of capitalism is possible when critique in the tradition of Kant and Hegel means that the criticized subject itself has to “give” the measure of its critique. The thesis is …
you can order here A New Theory of Speculative Capital The book’s central theme is to develop a new theory of speculative capital related to other forms of capital, the world market, and the state. Besides most Marxist and heterodox …
In discussions on the rate of profit and its tendency to fall and its role in Marxist theory, a number of phrases are often employed without clarifying what these might really mean. Primary among these are such phrases as ‘the …
And labor is everywhere, at all times. When oppression is absolute, there is no more leisure, no more „free time. Sleep is supervised. The meaning of work is then the destruction of work at and through work. But if, as …