By Michael Roberts Back last November, the excellent Argentine Marxist economist, Rolando Astarita presented on his blog the case for ‘overproduction’ as the cause of
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By Michael Roberts Back to theory in this post. The law of the tendential fall of the average rate of profit (LTRPF) lies at the
By Michael Roberts At this year’s Historical Materialism conference, I attended a session on what is called ‘fossil fuel capitalism’. Lukas Slothius from the LSE
By Michael Roberts Every year the Historical Materialism journal holds a conference in London. It is attended by (mostly) academics and students (mostly of a
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Pages from Bulgarian revolutionary history, Part 1
By Cain O’Mahoney The failure of the anti-fascist movement after World War One In this occasional series on the revolutionary upheavals in Europe, Cain O’Mahony
By Michael Roberts In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism is an important new book
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Marx’s theory of value: collapse, AI and Petro
By Michael Roberts A site called Marxism and Collapse (M&C) has conducted a ‘dialogue’ with an AI model called Genesis Zero (GZ) that includes “an
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What fascism meant then…and now
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member During the 1930s, Leon Trotsky wrote about the rise of fascism in Germany and other European countries.
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AHE 2024: value, profit and output
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 13 July 2024. The original article can be found here. ************** The
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Fifty years ago today: The Portuguese Revolution begins
By Greg Oxley Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the revolution in Portugal, a process that unfolded over many months. Greg Oxley,
