Today is Grey but the Future Looks Black
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 19 2020 15:56
New year, old music, from a well-known score sheet played out by... the Left. A "Left" that’s not ashamed to dress itself up in populist clothes, worn in the service of state capital on the understanding that this is the way to open up markets as a "progressive realisation of the patriotic ideal and the concept of nationhood". In the name, of course, of the people and the "concept of community" as understood by those who are ready to recite the hidden virtues of a renewed "capital-socialism".
The Shadow of September 2008 Continues to Lengthen
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 13 2019 12:55
It is now 11 years since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. The crisis in the real economy, instead of fading from memory, has become a fixture.
The Commoner #7: The "governance" of Imposed Scarcity
Issue 7 of The Commoner magazine
The illusion of the precapitalist gift - humanaesfera
What was the precapitalist gift? In what concrete material circumstances did it make sense? Here, we briefly want to show that the precapitalist conditions which made the gift to make sense are not only without return, but are also absolutely undesirable today. In communist society the enjoyment of the productive forces can neither be a gift nor an exchange of commodities.
Capitalism’s Crisis of Stagnation and Austerity
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 30 2018 16:11
As 2018 opens economic optimism is breaking out amongst the capitalist class. Leaving aside the vainglorious boasts of the current President of the United States that unemployment in the US has reached lows only last seen in the post-war boom, or that the New York stock market is now at all time record highs, more serious economic commentators are arguing that after a decade of misery (at least for 99% of the planet) the signs of recovery from the 2007-8 banking collapse are now behind us. If this sounds familiar it is because we have heard the same tale so many times.
Ten Years Since the Financial Crash: What Price Education?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 29 2017 15:48
Ever since the post-war principle of free education was abandoned in 1998 by Blair’s New Labour government, fees for higher education have risen steeply and expanded to include maintenance charges.
The Politics of Debt
This paper was presented to the CSE Scotland conference on The State, the Poll
Tax and Class Struggle held on 27th January 1990. It is very much the product
of discussions within the CSE Edinburgh group.
5,000 years of debt?
Aufheben's critical review of David Graeber's book Debt: The first 5,000 years.
Shays' rebellion, 1786
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 26 2014 14:26
A short history of the "Shays' rebellion" in Massachusetts in the wake of the American Revolution, in which many poor farmers and war veterans attempt to shut down the state's courts in protest at the debt burden on veterans and high taxes on farmers.
Revolutions in reverse: Essays on politics, violence, art, and imagination - David Graeber
Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart.
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