1848+: Last and First Men

Troubled Cuba Mulls ‘A Different Kind’ Of Socialism

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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 [...]

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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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Can We Transform the Auto-Industrial Society? By Emma Rothschild The cataclysm of the American automobile industry has been an odd combination, so far, of immediate and historical anxieties. The government loan of $13.4 billion to General Motors and Chrysler in December 2008 was presented by the outgoing administration as an unsolicited gift, lest a “disorderly [...]

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Our Epistemological Depression By Jerry Z. Muller Major recessions are characterized by something novel. Opacity and pseudo-objectivity created the crisis today. The history of socialism is the history of failure—and so is the history of capitalism, but in a different sense. For the history of socialism is one of fundamental failure, a failure to provide [...]

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