[Marxism] Trade wars are class wars – part two: global imbalances? | Michael Roberts Blog
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[Marxism] Protesters Attacked a State Senator and Tore Down a Statue of an Abolitionist in Wisconsin - VICE
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[Marxism] Heidegger v Carnap: how logic took issue with metaphysics | Aeon Essays
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[Marxism] Bernie Is Right: Unite to Dump Trump
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[Marxism] bellingcat - Masked Men On A Hellenic Coast Guard Boat Involved In Pushback Incident - bellingcat
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[Marxism] Michael Roberts Blog: Trade wars are class wars – part two: global imbalances? June 24, 2020 at 7:09 am
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Re: [Marxism] Keynes returns from the dead?
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Didn't Keyenes return 10 years ago? Skidelsky made the rounds in the media with the tagline "Return of the Master." It's almost like the bourgeoisie habitually tosses kibble with their left hand outwards to pacify the public when these economic downturns happen or something... Returning to Keynesianism would be an ecological catastrophe. The dollar would either remain a) pegged to the daily price of the Saudi oil barrel (the petro-dollar), which depends upon further burning of fossil fuel, or b) return to some sort of metallic standard, which is dependent upon extractive activities that are terribly polluting. The ecological crisis is catalyzed by the perpetual growth model of economics we operate upon in the totality of the industrialized world. The problem goes even deeper because the renewable energy sector has yet to surmount the polluting impacts brought about by the production of renewable energy implements like solar panels. We really are in a quandary and have substantial challenges to confront. -- Best regards, Andrew Stewart Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:26:16 -0700 From: John Reimann <1999wild...@gmail.com> To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: [Marxism] Keynes returns from the dead? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Those of the younger generations will not remember, and maybe many won't be familiar with Keynes. He was the architect of the economic strategy post WW II. That was the strategy that advocated deficit spending as a means of preventing new economic disasters like the 1930s Depression. His theories lost capitalist support in the fact of the threat of runaway inflation in the US in the late 1970s. Now, it seems, in the face of renewed crises, they may be making a comeback. For those who can't open the article, here it is: " If, like me, you feel like our nation is going through hell right now, then you might also agree that it?s a good time to recall the admonition, ?When you?re going through hell, keep going.? But where are we to go? What is the best path out of our intersecting crises: pandemic, recession and violent, structural racism? For that, I recommend turning to the renowned British economist John Maynard Keynes. I?ve been reading Zachary D. Carter?s excellent new biography of Keynes, finding the book and Keynes?s ideas remarkably timely. Keynes?s towering body of work points toward a more inclusive economy and society, one that throws off the yoke of dominant assumptions that, 74 years after Keynes?s death, still repress functional, representative democracy. Most people associate Keynesian economics with governments spending their way out of recessions, a policy playing out in real time across the globe. That?s certainly core to the Keynesian revolution in political economics, but to stop there fails to capture the scope of insights Keynes developed long before he was pushing Roosevelt to spend expansively on the New Deal during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Through the First World War and especially during its aftermath, when his sage guidance was ignored, Keynes struggled to reconcile the tragic occurrences he saw unfolding with the classical assumptions that markets, and thus the societies they support, would always naturally settle into optimal conditions. Keynes correctly predicted that imposing severe reparations on post-World War I Germany would plant the seeds for the next world war. He saw, contrary to the classical model in which he?d been trained, endless cycles of booms and busts born of assumptions about money, wages and work that relentlessly delivered high unemployment and stagnant earnings for workers amid huge returns for ?rentiers? (those whose incomes derived from compounding wealth, not work). He witnessed the political discontent that grew out of these dynamics and understood how the failure of the capitalism of the day ? underwritten by untethered, often corrupt financial markets ? provided powerful fuel for communism. Keynes rejected Marxism, believing instead, as Carter notes, that ?it was time for capitalism not to be overthrown but to be ?wisely managed.? ? But Keynes understood and feared the political outcomes of an economic system that failed to deliver consistent security, if not prosperity, to most people. Why did capitalism need management? Because, contrary to assumption, it didn?t manage itself. Keynes observed, for example, that individual people often saved more than businesses invested (again, contrary to assumption). To this day, economics students are taught that savings equals investment, and that the way to boost investment is to save
[Marxism] To Avoid Integration, Americans Built Barricades in Urban Space - Urban inequality didn’t happen by accident
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[Marxism] Biden Takes Dominant Lead in Poll as Voters Reject Trump on Virus and Race - The New York Times
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Re: [Marxism] Protesters Attacked a State Senator and Tore Down a Statue of an Abolitionist in Wisconsin - VICE
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Re: [Marxism] Protesters Attacked a State Senator and Tore Down a Statue of an Abolitionist in Wisconsin - VICE
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Re: [Marxism] Protesters Attacked a State Senator and Tore Down a Statue of an Abolitionist in Wisconsin - VICE
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[Marxism] Troy Area Labor Council calls for suspension of police union from AFL-CIO | Adam Pelletier | Strikewave
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[Marxism] Paris cops spark another ‘I can't breathe’ case | Steve Sweeney | The Morning Star
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[Marxism] Unions Are Taking a Stand for Black Lives | Karina Piser | The Nation
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