From the monthly archives:

July 2009

How Bad Will the Economy Get?

by nemo on July 14, 2009

How Bad Will the Economy Get? Really, Really Bad
By Thomas Greco, Jr., AlterNet
Posted on July 14, 2009, Printed on July 14, 2009

http://www.alternet.org/story/141281/

Historically, every financial and economic crisis has been used to
further centralize power and concentrate wealth. This one is no
different, and in fact the moves being promoted by the Obama
administration and the central banks of the Western powers will take the
whole world to the pinnacle of financial despotism — unless enough
people wake up and claim their own “money power.” [click to continue...]

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Hilferding’s ‘Finance Capital’

by nemo on July 13, 2009

http://www.marxmail.org/msg64557.html

… have completed adding Hilferding’s ‘Finance Capital’ to the Marxist Internet Archive.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/hilferding/1910/finkap/index.htm

The archive also carries Kautsky’s review of the book:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1911/xx/finance.htm

… Kautsky’s article on Hilferding’s mistake on money (translated by MIAer Daniel Guido) …

http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1912/xx/gpcc.htm

… and Lenin’s notes on the book:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/ni-theta/hilferd.htm

Happy Bastille Day reading …

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Historical materialism flunks language evolution

by nemo on July 2, 2009

The Left, A.N. Wilson, and Language Evolution

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