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From the current issue of Jacobin magazine:
“But Cohen believed that rank-and-file socialists who think the LTV is obvious are moved by something other than Marx’s technical claims about value. Instead, what moves them is something like a “labor theory of things that have value,” which is very obviously true! Regardless of what value is, no commodity that has value has ever been the product of anything except some combination of (a) the nonhuman natural world and (b) human labor.”
https://jacobin.com/2022/06/karl-marx-labor-theory-of-value-ga-cohen-economics/
Later, Andrew Kliman argued against both the GA Cohen argument, and what he considered even worse, the version given by Ben Burgis: https://marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economics/marx-systematically-exploited-by-burgis-marxs-exploitation-theory-vs-g-a-cohens-plain-argument.html
Here is a book, published last year, that ought to be reviewed from an SPGB point-of-view: Tony Smith’s “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’”:https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/22322_a-socialism-for-the-twenty-first-century-towards-the-full-and-free-development-of-every-individual-by-tony-smith-reviewed-by-stephen-darling/
Gauntlet thrown down:
In his most recent contribution insisting on labor-time-accounting (LTA), Hermann Lueer explicity states: ‘More than a century has passed since Otto Neurath formulated the idea of economic planning in physical units. Yet no workable method has been found that would allow producers to *self‑manage* a complex, interdependent economy on this basis.’ That’s here:https://leftdis.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/the-forgotten-logic-of-communism
Given that at start of his publication of the 2020 publication of the GIC’s [expanded 1935 version of] Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution, he gives his email — herluee@yahoo.com — he could easily be invited by Robbo or others to publicly debate his views. (In his two posts just above this one, DPP has already made a couple fundamental objections, the first of which I don’t recall having read in previous argument against LTA.)
From a few weeks back, see topmost letter (by B. Lazare) on the page at this link: https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1559/letters
It’s about the Weekly Worker group’s pro-Hamas’ism.
‘Rubio Neo-conned Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan’:
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel-mcadams/2025/11/27/rubio-neo-conned-trumps-ukraine-peace-plan/
From the blurb shown on this page it’s a worthlessly Leninist (stalinist? maoist? critique of Frankfurtism: https://nyupress.org/9781685901356/who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism
I’d take WSWS-brand anti-Frankfurtism over this kind of ‘actually existing socialism’ cheerleader garbage any day.
In the course of the press conference, Mamdani was asked about the resolution against ‘socialism’ that had just been passed by the lower house of the American parliament. Here’s about that resolution:
Or, skip directly to the text of it: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/58/text
A more entertaining article than the BBC’s is this, where the keyword may be ‘surreal’: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/trump-mamdani-make-love-not-war-00665861
As for the David North Trots (i.e the WSWS), they title their article ‘Mamdani announces “partnership” with hated would-be dictator Trump’. Here, the keywords are ‘disgusting’ and ‘grotesque’:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/22/mzez-n22.htmlIf you want to actually watch the 30-minute Mamdani-Trump news conference (never a dull moment), it’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDanzN1EUeE
‘The October 7 Industry’:https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-october-7-industry
Hermann Lueer reviews part of the Bernes book. The review has these parts:
Abstract;
1. Marx against Labor Money;
2. Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution;
3. Bordiga against the GIC;
4. Dauvé – Councils without workers in the land of milk and honey;
5. Paul Mattick’s famous introduction to the 1970 reissue of the Fundamental Principles;
ConclusionA non-favorable review of the Bernes book by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Network in the most recent issue of its organ, Rebel Worker: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-09/RW%20Sept-Oct%202025.pdf . On PDF-page 16
