Volume 51, Number 11
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c o n t e n t s Monopoly Capital at the Turn of
the Millennium This article is dedicated to Paul Sweezy on his 90th birthday. It is also meant as a personal expression of my conviction that Monopoly Capital (1966) by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, which provided a rich analysis of capital accumulation and crisis rooted in insights from Marx, Keynes, Kalecki, and Schumpeter, is still the most useful starting point from which to view the historical evolution of the United States and other advanced capitalist economies. My intention in this article is to use that general analysis to comment on some of the central empirical developments within the economy in our time—in a new millennium and under conditions of the globalization of monopoly capital. Cars and Cities In Marxist theory the treatment of technology has generally referred to production, the means of production, the character of the labor process, and related matters. This follows the example set by Marx himself in his justly famous chapter on machinery and modern industry in Volume 1 of Capital which occurs in the part devoted to the production of relative surplus value. Neither there nor anywhere else in Capital is there any discussion or analysis of the impact of technology on consumption and via consumption on processes of capital accumulation and social development. Sweezy v. New Hampshire:
Before the founding of Monthly Review, Paul Sweezy had been an instructor at Harvard and the author of germinal works on the American economy. But his teaching and writing were always accompanied by vigorous engagement with the political movements of the time: he helped organize the Harvard Teachers' Union, taught economics at the leftist Samuel Adams School in Boston, and, in 1948, took a leading role in Henry Wallace's presidential run on the pro-New Deal and anti-Cold War Progressive Party ticket in his home state of New Hampshire. As he often did, Sweezy combined his support of the Wallace third party challenge with his ongoing advocacy of socialism. Statement to the New Hampshire
Paul Sweezy's statement defying the New Hampshire Attorney General's inquiry into his political views and associations, as it appeared in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Sweezy v. New Hampshire, June 17, 1957 (354 U.S. 234). Happy
Birthday, Paul! |
f e a t u r e d “A bold, exciting interpretation of
the historical background and context of Marx's ecological thought and a
fascinating exploration of environmental history. Should be of interest to all
who care about the fate of our ‘vulnerable planet.’ ” |
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Overcoming the predatory phase Why Socialism? Is it advisable for one who is not an
expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of
socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is... |
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The New Imperialism Human Rights
Imperialism "'Human Rights' has been for a
generation the chosen battlefield of U.S. worldwide propaganda. The United
States, which imprisons a much larger percentage of its population than any
other country, routinely sets itself up as the universal arbiter of human
rights..." |
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"A masquerade of ideas..." A Report from
Minsk "Counter-revolution and social regress will not be advocated openly by those who seek to benefit by them, not even to themselves; and now we can all see that under the mask "open society" lay the plunder of billions of dollars at a speculative shot, starving pensioners, tuberculosis epidemics, and death." |
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