Left Forum 2009: “Concretizing Marx’s Alternative to Capitalism”
April 30, 2009 by
MHI
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Alternatives to Capital
The Marxist-Humanist Initiative, along with the New SPACE, sponsored the panel “Concretizing Marx’s Alternative to Capitalism: A Marxist-Humanist Perspective” at the 2009 Left Forum. Below is the audio from that panel’s presentations and along with the discussion that took place afterwards. Read More
Rasmussen asked, “Which is a better system – capitalism or socialism?”
April 25, 2009 by
MHI
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Alternatives to Capital, U.S. News
By Andrew Kliman.
A Rasmussen poll conducted earlier this month found strong support for socialism, especially among low-income people and youth. And Scott Rasmussen is a Republican pollster. Read More
On the Roots of the Current Economic Crisis and Some Proposed Solutions
April 17, 2009 by
MHI
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Economic Crisis
By Andrew Kliman, Author of Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital“: A refutation of the myth of inconsistency.
Some prominent radical economists and non-economists have denied that Marx’s theory of the tendential fall in the rate of profit helps to explain the current economic crisis. I want to begin by explaining why they dismiss this theory, and then argue, to the contrary, that the current crisis does have a lot to do with the tendential fall in the rate of profit as analyzed by Marx. Read More
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