Link to an article by Yanis Varoufakis:
“Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets”
Bonus link: “When Market Fundamentalism Overcomes Common Sense: Myth of Electricity Markets”
Tag: Economics
Prabhat Patnaik – Controlling Inflation At the Expense of Working Class
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
“Controlling Inflation At the Expense of Working Class”
Bonus links: “Translating Fed Chair Powell’s Big Speech on Inflation” and “Inflation, the Fed and Workers” and “Make the Capitalists Pay for the Inflation Crisis”
Matthew Crain – How Capitalism—Not a Few Bad Actors—Destroyed the Internet
Link to an article by Matthew Crain:
“How Capitalism—Not a Few Bad Actors—Destroyed the Internet”
Bonus link: “Adorno, Lazarsfeld and the Birth of Public Broadcasting with Josh Shepperd”
Prabir Purkayastha – US-China Chip War Continues
Link to an article by Prabir Purkayastha:
Bonus link: “Technological Change and Strategic Sabotage: A Capital as Power Analysis of the US Semiconductor Business” and “You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors” and “The U.S. ‘Act of War’ Against China”
Stephen Gowans – Promoting Development and Fostering the Unity of Humanity, or Dividing Labor to Conquer It?
Link to an article by Stephen Gowans:
“Promoting Development and Fostering the Unity of Humanity, or Dividing Labor to Conquer It?”
Thomas Redshaw – Cryptocurrencies
Link to an article by Thomas Redshaw:
“Cryptocurrencies: A View From the Left”
Bonus link: “The Egregious Arrogance of Sam Bankman-Fried (& His Ilk)”
Link to an Interview with Prabhat Patnaik
Link to an interview:
“Sanctions and the World Economic Order: A Conversation with Prabhat Patnaik”
See also: “Western Nations Will Have To Transform” and “Russia and the Ukraine Crisis: The Eurasian Project in Conflict with the Triad Imperialist Policies” and “The Dollar System in a Multi-Polar World”
Prabhat Patnaik – Why Capitalist Governments Worry More about Inflation than Unemployment?
Link to an article by Prabhat Patnaik:
“Why Capitalist Governments Worry More about Inflation than Unemployment?”
Jodi Dean – Communism or Neo-Feudalism
Link to a video of a speech by Jodi Dean:
Rob Urie Quote About Differences on the Political Left
Quote by Rob Urie:
“Differences on ‘the left’ have been between the chide that we need better management of empire versus the counter-argument that capitalist imperialism is the problem that needs to be solved. The charge, addressed below, that Donald Trump represents a ‘unique threat’ falls out on the ‘better management of empire’ side of this divide. The subtext is a contested analogy regarding the genesis of European fascism in the twentieth century. To state: the base difference between left and right political analysis has historically been a focus on society and institutions (left) versus individuals and ‘character’ (right).
“As a child (and opponent) of the Vietnam war, I’ve argued for most of my now substantial years that assessments of the uniqueness of the Nazi threat depends on which side of American power you exist on. The horror of Nazi atrocities can’t be understated. But neither can the basic outline of American history, from slavery and genocide against the indigenous peoples to the people, friends, families, communities and nations destroyed. From Vietnam to Central America to Iraq to the present, I’ve met more than a few American ‘heroes’ who would be understood to be the moral equivalents of Nazi concentration camp commanders but for which side of power they reside on.
“Following WWII, an argument was developed in support of the ‘uniquely evil’ nature of Nazism whose very purpose was to get past American history up to that point. And it depended on ideological explanations of history, purposely leaving aside the economic circumstances behind the rise of Nazism so as to avoid capitalist culpability for the Great Depression. This theory, tied to right-wing economics, is today known as ‘neoliberalism.’”
Bonus link: “The Two Totalitarianisms”