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Regime Change and Dominant Capital: Lessons from Israel

1.      Risk and appeasement Israel’s ongoing crisis – or ‘judicial coup’ in popular parlance – has elicited two opposite responses. The first comes from global rating agencies, economists and investment strategists who see Israel’s country risk rising. The opposite reaction, […]

Regime Change and Dominant Capital: Lessons from Israel

Speculative Capital in the context of LiPumas theory of Speculation And CIrculatory Capital

We present ht here, in three parts, a preliminary report on the book Speculative Capital, which contains the first comprehensive study of a new form of capital that dominates the economies of the 21st century. Throughout this report, we refer

Speculative Capital in the context of LiPumas theory of Speculation And CIrculatory Capital

Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism. Marx’s Reflections and Marxist Interpretations

… In this context, financial risk is calculated on the basis of particular fetishistic representations of the events and outcomes of class struggle. Risk is the way capitalist agents perceive the future from an ideological point of view. Risk is

Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism. Marx’s Reflections and Marxist Interpretations

Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance is Resistance, and Anyway, Resistance is Futile

Occupy Wall Street and the dawning of worldwide anti-austerity movements have occasioned a consideration of the economic and political power of financial speculation and raised the question of how it might be resisted. This essay argues hat the ideas of

Finance Depends on Resistance, Finance is Resistance, and Anyway, Resistance is Futile

Financialization and Marx: Some Reflections on Bryan’s, Martin’s and Rafferty’s Argumentation

Abstract The recent theoretical works of the authors provide thorough insights into the workings of contemporary capitalism. Derivatives are the key issue involved here. They comprehend financialization as a development within, rather than a distortion of, capitalist production. They nevertheless

Financialization and Marx: Some Reflections on Bryan’s, Martin’s and Rafferty’s Argumentation

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