What the media really means when it comments on industrial action….
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John Kenneth Galbraith, RIP
In memory of a flawed economist whose work is worth reading as he understood the role of power in the market.
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And the Nobel prize for economics goes to… Karl Marx
A sort article on the 2006 (non-)Nobel prize for economists going to Edmund Phelps basically repeating what socialists had argued as regards the role of unemployment in capitalism since at least Karl Marx
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Review: Rupturing the Dialectic
A review of a book by Autonomist Marxist Harry Cleaver. While sympathetic to the ideas raised, the book is ultimately unconvincing on a few levels. It appeared as “Struggling Against Work & Capitalism” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 76 (Summer 2019)
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Review: Democracy at work: A cure for capitalism
A review of a book by a Marxist academic advocating economic democracy. It could have done with some understanding of anarchist ideas for the goals aimed for — workers’ control — is far more at home within anarchism than Marxism. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 64/5 (Summer 2015).
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