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Forces of Revolution

Workers’ Self-Organization: New Unionization Drives and Their Contradictions

“Workers’ Self-Organization: New Unionization Drives and Their Contradictions,” by Gabriel Donnelly. Workers are challenging entrenched union leadership and the NLRB, and leading grassroots unionization campaigns. Where could this lead? […]
Economics

Should I Turn Down the Thermostat or Overthrow the Capitalist Mode of Production?

“Should I Turn Down the Thermostat or Overthrow the Capitalist Mode of Production?,” by Brendan Cooney. Challenges assumptions that rising greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to consumers’ behavior and the fact that the wrong leaders are in charge. […]
Forces of Revolution

Women in Iran Lead Mass Demonstrations for “Women, Life, Liberty”

Women in Iran Lead Mass Demonstrations for “Women, Life, Liberty.” Women, girls, and workers continue the explosive month-long protests to bring down the Islamic Republic. The spark was the murder of a 22-year old woman by the Morality Police. […]
Alternatives to Capital

Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program on Capitalism vs. Communism

“The Critique of the Gotha Program on Capitalism vs. Communism: An Analysis and Commentary,” by Andrew Kliman. A close reading of the text, informed by Marx’s conception of the relation between economic basis and political/legal superstructure. […]
Economics

Marxist-Humanist Perspective on Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis

New MHI statement. The climate crisis won’t and can’t be solved without overthrowing capitalism. The source of the problem isn’t ill will, ideology, or greed, but capitalism’s law of value and the reckless, anarchic growth that flows from it. […]
Economics

Henryk Grossmann’s Breakdown Model: On the Real Cause of the Fictitious Breakdown Tendency

Andrew Kliman argues that Grossmann’s theory of capitalism’s breakdown is fatally flawed. The real cause of breakdown is an implausible physical imbalance. And when the model’s self-contradictions are removed, the breakdown tendency disappears. […]

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September 1, 2017