A well-meaning relative bought me Niall Ferguson's 'The Ascent of Money - A financial history of the world' for Chrismas - for which she was duly thanked....
Hi Adam After I posted I checked to see if he had given a reference. He had. You will know this one. The article is 'A World Without Money' originally...
Thanks. Glad to see that it wasn't one of our writers that was accused of being "effusive". Even so, the idea of using gold in urinals first came from Thomas...
... ======================== That a great idea, unless you want to risk getting a hernia! And that's when they're empty. Julian Vein...
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Hi William. Thanks for posting this. I found Kurzban's argument interesting but ultimately unconvincing. These are my very first thoughts on the subject, and...
Hi all America, Empire of Liberty on radio 4 has started up again, last week. There was quite a good one today on the emergence of industrial capitalism proper...
I've been reading around the edges of the theories of capitalist crisis expounded by Henryk Grossman. Mostly around his analysis and development of Marx's...
http://www.worldsocialism.org/articles/introduction_to_marxian_economics2.php 2009/2/4 Andy Davies <andyofaldridge@...> ... [Non-text portions of this...
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/education/Education%20Series%20Crises.html Others writers as Raya Dunayeskaya have said that capitalism collapse in 1930...
Marcos,  I don't read Grossman as saying Capitalism collapsed in the 1930's. My understanding is he suggested that however bad crises may ultimately...
I did not say that, what I have indicated is that, there are so more writers that have considered that the problem of the crisis of capitalism are due to the...
Those are the two fundamental basis for any capitalist crisis. All of these so called 'creative Marxists" writers in essence they are just Leninist, and ...
... of these ... Leninist, and ... Marx and ... and private ... way to be ... establishing a ... Hi Marcos, I thought Engels (though not Marx) subscribed to an...
Between Marx and Engels there were certain philosophical and economical disagreements, the so called unique unity between both is not totally correct, on the...
... economical ... Private ... mistaken ... subscribed to ... Im not sure this is correct, Marcos. In the 1884 preface to Marx's Poverty of Philosophy Engels ...
There is also this oddly Malthusian passage by Engels from the 1886 Preface to the English translation of Capital: "Free trade has exhuasted its resources;...
Hi Robin Didn't read your last post to the end so didn't see you'd picked up on the Preface to Capital as well. Engels seems to be arguing that capitalist...
... Hi Richard No, I think these views expressed by Engels definitely do point towards an underconsumptionist outlook whether or not this was wholeheartedly...
Marx and Engels made many changes and alterations on their thoughts through the course of their life, and several of them were corrected later on, but despite...
Robin: I was a member of News and Letters for several years, and I studied also the works of Raya Dunayeskaka, and we studied Engels in a very deep manner, ...
If we read the out of context citations used, or presented against Marx by the follower of the so called XXI Century Socialism, the Chavezists, and the...
... Hi Marcos and Richard There is an excellent article I came across by John Crump writing in the Socialist Standard way back in 1969. Its on the subject of ...
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