Probably not, but recent events in Afghanistan suggest an example.  This would be the sudden departure just over two weeks ago on Aug. 15 f...

The draft "Chapter Six" was preceded by an earlier version of the analysis of formal and real subsumption of labour under capital....

I thought this was going to be the final installment of my review of Marx's writing on socially necessary labour time but then I discove...

Is it my imagination, or do vax- and mask-hesitant people, reported in news stories about the Covid Divide, almost always say they “have don...

Chapter 15 of volume III, "Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law [of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall] is icon...

In chapter five of volume III, Engels made a blunder by referring to socially necessary labour time as necessary labour time. Presumably, th...

Aside from a comment on the "labour socially necessary" in Engels's preface, there is no other mention of socially necessary l...

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An excerpt of a passage from the Grundrisse , in the notorious "fragment on machines," has become iconic in contemporary Marx stud...

 It was also on a Sunday, with financial markets closed, that August 15, 1971, when US President Richard Nixon gave a surprise address to th...

The law of supply and demand for labour power is perverse in that the more fertile labour power's use value as a source of surplus value...

I started this series with the intention of comparing Dilke's " plain leveling principle " consumption-based conception of soc...

 We are now looking at a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan.  It looks like the Taliban will probably take control of Kabul and thus Afgha...

Thomas Chalmers undoubtedly cribbed his " disposable population " from Turgot's classe disponible . Turgot's meaning seems...

 Krugman has a piece in the New York Times today that offers an explanation for why Republicans oppose every measure—vaccination, masking, ...