Monopoly capital is a feature of later stage capitalism, which drives imperialism. This was proven by the great drive for imperialism, first theorized by Vladimir Lenin. But can we say that monopoly capital is the same today as it was in Lenin’s time of the First World War? Capitalism, like many things, evolves over time.…
The large coffee chain Starbucks has decided to cash in on the suffering of refugees. An announcement was made that the corporation will hire 2,500 refugees for their European stores by the year 2022. The company says it’s a part of a program to create jobs for refugees that was announced back in January. These…
A response to Byung-Chul Han’s post: Why revolution is no longer possible. An article written by Byung-Chul Han published on OpenDemocracy.net, claims that revolution is no longer possible.
Edit: Since this blog post was made, Daniel Sullivan has removed his Facebook post out of embarrassment. In a recent post in the Communism 101 group on Facebook, the admin Daniel Sullivan (who is no stranger to myself)
Kevin Rashid of the blog Democracy and Class Struggle attempts to take on the Maoist International Movement (MIM) by claiming he can debunk the idea of a global labour aristocracy.[1] His answer contains no tangible refutation whatsoever. He mere dogmatically reasserts what has been stated in the past about the labour aristocracy without actually confronting…
It’s wonderful to see a mainstream economics man like Paul Krugman come across a Marxist criticism by accident. I’m not surprised its Krugman who does it, he seems to be a hell of a lot more honest than just about anyone out there in the media. I found this statement in his book End This…
One of the more (I find) annoying claims made by right wing thought is that we currently need foreign labour to fill our labour market because we do not have enough skilled labour. It is also claimed that we do not have enough general labour to fill our current demand for it. I’ve always been…
Originally From: http://economicsofimperialism.blogspot.ca/2011/08/foxconn-organic-composition-of-capital.html “Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue, plans to increase the use of robots in its factories 100-fold to 1m within three years, according to Terry Gou, chairman and chief executive.” (Financial Times, 1 August 2011) Taiwanese company Foxconn has already made an appearance on this blog. Last time it…
A response to a reactionary video by anarcho-capitalist Jacob Spinney, by Klaas Velija (a good friend and a great teacher of Marxism) http://crushcapital.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/critique-of-jacob-spinneys-video-on-exploitation/ “So what exactly do people mean when they say that workers are being exploited?” Exploitation is defined as “making use of some vulnerability in another person in order to use them to…
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