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Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism

First, according to Marx’s argument, isolated individual capitals within a social formation, are transformed through competition (and not through the political influence of the state exercised from outside, as, e.g. Hardt and Negri [2000: 304-5] mistakenly maintain), into elements of …

Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism

Notes on Anwar Shaikh`s „Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises“

Marxist economist Anwar Shaikh has written a monumental book. His thousand-plus page work Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises is anything but a textbook and presupposes a basic knowledge of neoclassicism, Keynesianism and Marxist theory. It is also enriched with a sophisticated …

Notes on Anwar Shaikh`s „Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises“

Capital and Total Capital: The Quasi-Transcendentality of Capital and the Actualisation-Virtualisation Connection

For a further explanation of the concept of capital, we refer to French philosopher François Laruelle, who, in his conception of non-philosophy, speaks of “unilateral duality”. He generally first assumes that two or more terms and their relations are always …

Capital and Total Capital: The Quasi-Transcendentality of Capital and the Actualisation-Virtualisation Connection

The fat years: CentralBanks and The Politics of Quantitative Easing

The term “quantitative easing” (QE) describes measures taken by central banks, such as the permanent purchase of mostly long-term securities and government bonds, which are held by commercial banks, when interest rates are already at zero and an expansive monetary …

The fat years: CentralBanks and The Politics of Quantitative Easing

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