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1. The Decadence of Capitalism (xi): 40 years of open crisis show that capitalism's decline is terminal

   ... has also been obscured: “ Mattick’s use of the term state capitalism, then, is misnomer. State capitalism or ‘state ... lost themselves in frenetic activism which, lacking any long-term analysis, did not long survive the end of the first wave of international ...

   International Review - 2021-12-29 17:58

2. What point has the crisis reached?: The recovery … of the fall of world economy

   ... +0.9% in 1989 and went down to -0.8% in 1990. Expressed in term of income per head, its revenues fell to their 1978 level. And we won’t ... The USA was in a phase of economic recovery; * Long term interest rates stood at 2%, the international financial system was stable, ...

   International Review - 2021-03-23 22:26

3. Economic crisis: The bourgeoisie is running out of excuses

   ... one point Keynes was undoubtedly right and that is that long term mass unemployment is a critically important expression of the economic ... policies proved to have no effectiveness over the longer term. In fact state intervention, whatever form it takes, is only a palliative ...

   World Revolution - 2010-05-18 16:35

4. What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism?

   ... a series of political struggles in the narrow sense of the term, and in which the working class, allied in succession to diverse political ... contemptuously refer to as "ultra-left" (a pejorative term the Trotskyists use in much the same spirit as the term "Hitler-Trotskyites" which the Stalinists used against them) ...

   International Review - 2009-11-05 20:54

5. Editorial: Riots or revolution?

   ... a great secret. World capitalism is suffering from a long term and insoluble economic crisis that expresses itself at every level of ... of the non-exploiting population: grinding poverty and long term unemployment resulting from the austerity plans of capitalist states in ...

   International Review - 2006-01-15 20:27

6. Spanish indignados’ movement: What remains of 15M?

   ... of militancy some reject the term “working class ”. [5] This skepticism is ...

   ICConline - 2021-12-31 16:39

7. The Historic Course

   ... -- the long term? Certainly, the communist project can’t be based on anything else. -- the short term? Obviously, it’s part of human activity so it must be part of the ... -- the middle term? Because it can’t be res­tricted to generalities like long-term ...

   International Review - 2009-01-03 14:47

8. Socialism or barbarism: War under capitalism

   ... saying that this mythical view in the true sense of the term is largely nourished, supported and spread by the carriers of the dominant ... represent a productive investment in the true sense of the term, but always a wasteful expenditure. In any case, the source of profit did ...

   International Review - 2010-07-19 07:30

9. Max Raphael and a Marxist perspective on art (Part 1)

   ... possible in our discussion forum, and so stimulate a longer term reflection. These articles, while being broadly based on proletarian ... society – in fact in one of his letters Engels uses the term “the relative autonomy of art”. More than that, art also has certain ...

   ICConline - 2016-03-27 08:48

10. Capitalism can’t feed the world

    ... kinds of questions sometimes end in war.” In the short term capitalism can only briefly stop wars; in the long term it makes them more likely. Of the other factors (crop failures, ...

    World Revolution - 2008-06-02 20:12

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