Posts tagged: political-economy

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  Lettrism and the Youth Uprising of 68

  A translation of Isidore Isou’s "Between Isou and Marcuse," published in the Lettrist journal Youth Uprising in the summer of 1968.

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  On the Vitality of Marxian Thought: Elmar Altvater, 1938–2018

  Elmar Altvater has died, shortly before his 80th birthday.

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  Workers Leaving the Factory: From May 68 to October 05

  May 1968 stands at the precipice into which the historical labor movement will descend. 

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  Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast — Episode 45: Mehrsa Baradaran on Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

  In a new episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Mehrsa Baradaran looks at the history of the racial wealth gap and the ways that Black banks have often acted to distract from more fundamental solutions. 

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Seven: The First Capitulation

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the seventh part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the disastrous agreement Varoufakis signed with the Eurogroup in February 2015. 

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  Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast — Episode 44: Malcolm Harris on the Millennial Generation

  In a new episode of Who Makes Cents: A History of Capitalism Podcast, Malcolm Harris explains how economic restructuring and the ideology of human capital helped to create the millennial generation.

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  Global Corporations and "World Music"

  The chronic crisis of the record industry is compounded by a constant paradox, apparently inherent in the technology of reproduction, by which music is turned into a commodity only to see it escape.

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  The Only Way Out is Through: A Reply to Melinda Cooper

  Kate Doyle Griffiths responds to Melinda Cooper's critique of Social Reproduction Theory. 

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  The Walls of the WTO: A film by Ryan S. Jeffery and Quinn Slobodian

  Watch The Walls of the WTO, a short film that revisits the history of twentieth-century ideas of the world economy through a single building: the Centre William Rappard on the shores of Lake Geneva.

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  Video: The End of Cheap Nature? — Jason W. Moore, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, and Cindi Katz

  Will we see the end of cheap, commodified nature, or will capitalism be able to exploit ongoing crises to generate a fresh round of accumulation?

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  Beyond Endless Winter: An Interview with Nick Srnicek

  A conversation with Nick Srnicek on accelerationism, technology, and political practice. 

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Six: The Disastrous Agreement of February 2015

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the sixth part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the negotiations preceding the extension of the Second Memorandum in February 2015.