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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Pay Inequality: where it comes from and what to do about it
A short account of how exploitation happens within capitalism. It appeared, if memory serves, as “Mind the Gap!” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Poor Adam Smith
An account of Adam Smith’s less well remembered ideas which shows that the right is somewhat selective in what they take from his ideas. It first appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 66 (Winter 2016)
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The Poverty of (Marx’s) Philosophy
A review of Marx’s The Poverty of Philosophy which indicates various distortions of Proudhon’s work. It also discusses how Marx in 1867 applied the methodology he had attacked Proudhon for using twenty years earlier. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review R No. 70 (Summer 2017)
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Proudhon’s constituted value and the myth of labour notes
A debunking of the common notion that Proudhon advocated “labour notes” as suggested by Marx in The Poverty of Philosophy. What Proudhon actually argued is explained and the key ideas of System of Economic Contradictions are discussed. It appeared in Anarchist Studies, Volume 25 No. 1
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