The Relevance of Marxian Economics Today

March 27, 2014

Interview with Andrew Kliman, author of a number of books on Marx’s ideas.

How did you come to be interested in Marxian economics and socialism?

I was 12 years old in 1968, a moment of tremendous radical ferment, and I immediately identified with all of the forces struggling for freedom. I don’t remember whether I immediately identified with socialism, too – in the environment of the time, immediately linking the two would have been rather natural – or whether that took a bit of reading and thinking.

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April 13, 2011

Value. A social relationship between people which expresses itself as a material relationship between things. The value of a commodity is determined by the quantity of socially necessary abstract labour time needed for its production and reproduction. Price is the monetary expression of value. (See also COMMODITIES; LABOUR THEORY OF VALUE; PRICE OF PRODUCTION.)

Reading

Andrew Kliman, Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital”, 2007

 

Discussion on ‘The Failure of Capitalist Production’

November 3, 2021

Adam Buick, 31st October 2021 Discussion on The Failure of Capitalist Production (This brief discussion followed a playing of part of guest speaker Andrew Kliman’s 2015 talk on ‘The Failure of Capitalist Production’)

Audio Index 2021

January 26, 2021

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Audio index 2010-2019

January 1, 2021

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An A to Z of Marxism

November 4, 2018

Preface This compilation of Marxist ideas and practices is aimed at the newcomer to the socialist movement who may be unfamiliar with socialist terminology and concepts. We have included suggested books for further reading and links to relevant websites in many of the entries. Included are many biographical entries of individuals, movements and organisations of …

Book Reviews: ‘Money and Totality’, & ‘Dirty Secrets – How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy’

May 1, 2017

‘Money and Totality’. By Fred Moseley. (Haymarket Books, 2017. 400 pages)

The subtitle sums up what the book is about: A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Logic in Capital and the End of the ‘Transformation Problem’.

We sometimes say that universities neglect Marx on economics. This is not strictly true as there is a sub-section which does look at Marx’s views here, from an academic point of view. One of their fields of study is the so-called ‘transformation problem’.