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Got it. Thanks people.

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[Marxism] Request

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Hi,

I’m trying to get my hands on a copy of Tom Nairn’s article ‘Enoch Powell:
The New Right’, published in New Left Review issue 61, May/June 1970. If
anyone has a sub to NLR, and could email me the article, I’d be *extremely*
grateful.

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[Marxism] Capital Volume 3, Part 5: A Summary

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Here: 
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Re: [Marxism] [New post] How did the universe begin? How will it end?

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Good grief. This is Marxism as religion. No wonder so many normal people 
don't take Marxism seriously any more.


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'Although not a conscious or consistent dialectical materialist, Smolin 
correctly highlights many of the fundamental flaws in the method and 
outlook of current theoretical physics.'


...

'The understanding of the fact that things change, that the Universe 
consists ultimately and fundamentally, of matter in motion, is the 
philosophical and scientific key to unlocking the mysteries of the 
Universe.'


...

'Our understanding of the laws of nature will of course dialectically 
develop and evolve as we are able to further expand the sphere of social 
knowledge and discover and explain phenomena that emerge at different 
scales; but the essential and objective ways in which matter in motion 
interacts will always be the same at all times and in all places. This 
fundamental “oneness” to the Universe, of the same general physical laws 
throughout time and space, is a pillar of the materialist philosophical 
outlook.'


...

'Nearly 20 years ago, we published Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy 
and Modern Science, by Ted Grant and Alan Woods, which is striking for 
its perspicacity and anticipation of many of the questions being hotly 
debated today. These anticipations were possible due to a consistent 
application of dialectical materialism and the understanding that 
philosophy is not secondary, but must play an integral role in guiding 
scientific investigation.'


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and so on ad nauseum here: 
. God help us.



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[Marxism] Reading Marx blog

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Along with volumes one and two, and the the first four parts of volume 
three, my reading notes for part five of Capital volume three 
(interest-bearing capital and the credit system) are now up on the blog.


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Re: [Marxism] Economics and Michael Roberts

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Phil Ferguson:

'Where do you get the idea vol 3 was written first?

 Vol 1 was published when Marx was alive, vol 3 was *put together by Engels
 after Marx's death*. Engels didn't mistranslate (in either the literal
 sense of the word or in the wider meaning). He worked with Marx
 with nearly 40 years; he didn't misunderstand or mistake Marx's theory of
 crisis.

 Moreover, Vol 3 could not have been written first because all the core
 concepts it is based on didn't exist without vol 1 and 2.

 Also, the three vols play different parts. Vol 1 is about production, vol
 2 is about distribution and vol 3 is about the capitalist system as a 
whole

 and how it actually operates.

 Btw, even as early as the Grundrisse, which precedes vol 1, he noted that
 LTRPF is 'the single most important law of modern political eocnomy'.
 There's no evidence he ever changed his mind. That's why vol 3 spends 50
 pages on the subject.

 'Magnitude over form' has nothing to do with it.'

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Not strictly true in terms of the order of Marx's writing of Capital. I 
happen to be working on an article on this point, and its consequences 
for understanding Capital. I'm pasting and excerpt from the draft below.


I've written about the rate of profit here: 
; 
I also deal with it here: 
.


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In 1857, the outbreak of economic crisis jolted Marx into an attempt to 
set out his thinking in something resembling systematic form. In 
December he wrote to Engels like this: ‘I am working like mad all night 
and every night collating my economic studies so that I at least get the 
outlines clear before the déluge.’ [1] He wrote a relatively polished 
‘Introduction’, which he later discarded, replacing it with the 
‘Preface’ to the Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy he 
would write in 1859, and a vast (around 1,000 pages in the current 
paperback English translation), sprawling draft outline of his thinking 
on economics, in turn fascinating in the insights it offers on Marx’s 
subsequent work and infuriating in its dense intelligibility. [2]
This outline – the Grundrisse – is considered by many as the ‘first 
draft’ of Capital; it was, of course, as a rough draught, completely 
unpublishable. During the first half of 1858, a deal was reached with a 
German publisher to bring Marx’s work to light. Marx envisaged a plan of 
six books, dealing with (in Marx’s own words [3]): ‘1. On Capital 
(contains a few introductory chapters). 2. On Landed Property. 3. On 
Wage Labour. 4. On the State. 5. International Trade. 6. World Market’. 
The publishing deal envisaged the publication of the work in 
instalments, the first one covering, in three chapters (again in Marx’s 
own words [4]), ‘1. Value, 2. Money, 3. Capital in General (the process 
of production of capital; process of its circulation; the unity of the 
two, or capital and profit; interest)’. As tended to be the case with 
Marx, however, the project, as he drafted, grew to unwieldy size; 
eventually seeing the light of day as a two-chapter (money and 
commodities) book introduced by a ‘Preface’ (in which Marx elaborates 
his famous ‘base’ and ‘superstructure’ metaphor, and which is arguably 
the most interesting part of the book), under the title A Contribution 
to a Critique of Political Economy, in 1859. The slightness of the 
work’s content, amid such expectation among Marx’s admirers, led to its 
eventual appearance being met with indifference on one end of the scale 
and intense disappointment on the other.


Nevertheless, following the publication of the Critique, Marx’s 
intention was to set to work on drafting the chapter on capital. As was 
his custom, however, he soon found himself distracted by other matters – 
in this case a sectarian squabble within German émigré politics (the 
‘Herr Vogt’ case) to which Marx devoted far more time and energy than it 
deserved – and work was interrupted for around eighteen months.


It is clear that the draft that Marx produced over the next two years 
(23 notebooks, known as ‘The Manuscript of 1861-3’, only published in 
full by the MEGA project [5] between 1977 and 1982 [6]) was intended, at 
least at the outset, as a continuation of the Critique (the first 
notebook is headed ‘chapter three’). But after five notebooks – which do 
indeed deal with the transformation 

[Marxism] Where did all that stuff come from? Marx, surplus profit, and the seemingly inexhaustible rise in the productivity of labour in capitalist production

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In Capital, Marx argues that, in a given sector of production producing a
given class of commodity, should one capitalist production unit introduce a
productive technique based on a higher level of productivity of labour than
that obtaining in the rest of the sector, that production unit will be
able, through lowering the per-unit value of its commodity product, to reap
a surplus-profit – a rate of profit higher than the sectorally-obtaining
rate. Marx strongly suggests that the ability to reap this surplus profit
why capitalists introduce more productive techniques in the first place
(even though, once introduced, competition between production units forces
the adoption of the new technique through the sector, and the innovator’s
advantage disappears). Given that Marx imputes to capitalist reproduction a
constant and consistent rise in the level of labour productivity, and given
that this secular rise explains the key characteristics of capitalist
reproduction itself (accumulation, the tendency of the rate of profit to
fall, the very unstable dynamism of capitalist reproduction), the quest for
surplus profit must lie at the heart of what is constitutive to capitalist
production and reproduction. It is surprising, therefore, that the
literature commenting on Marx’s theory almost in its entirety attributes
the drive to adopt innovative and more productive techniques to
competition. I reject this argument, and insist that, for Marx, it is the
quest for surplus profit that drives capitalists to adopt innovative
production techniques, not competition.

More: 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Syriza and socialist strategy - Stathis Kouvelakis and Alex Callinicos - YouTube

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Interesting.

This is an interview with Kouvelakis from just before the election: 
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/phase-one/.



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Re: [Marxism] Marx's crisis theory. . .

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My tuppenceworth worth on the rate of profit: 
https://edgeorgesotherblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/but-still-it-falls-on-the-rate-of-profit/.


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Re: [Marxism] Greek Elections: SYRIZA Wins … and Forms an Alliance with Reactionary Racists!

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RKOB wrote:

http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/greece-syriza-anel/






'I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too!”
He said, “But you’re not Him!'


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[Marxism] Lenin's Tomb on Charlie Hebdo

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http://www.leninology.co.uk/2015/01/charlie-hebdo.html


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Re: [Marxism] Question on Brenner Thesis

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Mark Lause:

‘I've raised this question myself several times and also felt like I 
must be missing something.


‘I've never actually gotten an answer that persuaded me that anything 
was at stake other than conflicting ideas of how to define capitalism.’




The debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism is important 
in itself in that it rests of the ability (or otherwise) of historical 
materialism to explain actual historical events and processes.


In addition to this, insofar as it does address ‘what capitalism is’, 
how it comes into being, how it operates, how it might be superseded, 
the debate and the issues it raises are of practical importance now for 
Marxists (and for people who might not think of themselves as Marxists) 
but who are engaged in the struggle for a better – non/post-capitalist – 
world.



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Re: [Marxism] Question on Brenner Thesis

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Although it's old, for political context this by Louis Proyect is very 
useful: 
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/origins/brenner_thesis.htm. 
Louis' archived material related to Brenner is here: 
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/origins.htm and here: 
http://louisproyect.org/category/transition-debate/. There's enough 
material here (whether you agree with it or not) to orientate yourself 
in relation to the political import of the debate.



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[Marxism] Request

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I'm trying to get hold of Anwar Sheikh's 'The First Great Depression of 
the 21st Century', Socialist Register 2011, pp. 44-63, but I can't seem 
to find it other than behind a pay wall. If there's anyone kind enough 
to oblige I'd be eternally grateful ...



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Got it. Thanks! (Sorry for the double posting earlier ...)



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