The Guardian • Karl Marx
Issue #2046
Overproduction – Crazy capitalism
In 1867, Karl Marx wrote of capitalism’s inherent tendency towards overproduction and underconsumption (not enough goods reaching those that need them). No more vulgar example...
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Issue #2047
175 years of reading the Communist Manifesto
Of course, we have all read, and all do read the Communist Manifesto. This year as we celebrate its 175th anniversary it is imperative to...
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Issue #2096
Modern Political Economy – A New Coursebook
Those who have struggled through Marx’s Capital will find this a must read and study. As a coursebook it is written in accessible language and...
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Issue #2107
What is … ? ‘bourgeoisie’
“I’m getting a bit bougie” (from someone buying nice furniture). “It’s all very bourgeois” (when people talk about house prices). “I’ve joined the bourgeoisie” (person...
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Issue #2188
Losurdo’s Class Struggle: more than just workers vs capital:
Losurdo’s Class Struggle: A Political and Philosophical History, helps to elucidate how Marx and Engels’ conception of class struggle is far broader than just the...
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Issue #2202
Learning from Karl Marx’s favourite novels
We know from Karl Marx’s letters, family’s reminiscences, and accounts by his contemporaries, that he was a voracious and wide-ranging reader. For Marx, great literature...
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Issue #2115
Capitalism and Slavery
Eric E Williams completed his PhD dissertation, “The Economic Aspects of the Abolition the Slave Trade,” using Marxist analysis, in 1944. Published as Capitalism and...
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Issue #2158
Engels at 130
We remember the legendary Friedrich Engels on the 130th anniversary of his passing (5 August 1895). Engel’s life works gave us the tools to understand...
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Issue #2150
Marx’s Ethical Vision
The sheer pleasure for me of reading Vanessa Christina Wills’ Marx’s Ethical Vision could have only been enhanced if the book had been entitled “In...
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Issue #2124
What are you worth?
Marx wrote extensively on the relationship between wages and prices. He showed that the relationship between a worker and their employer is that of a...
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Issue #2088
GREEN NOTES
Research into the potential climate impact of burning fossil fuels dates back at least 70 years. (Green Notes, Guardian #2086) But the impact of human...
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Issue #2210
Propaganda and ‘propaganda’
The word ‘propaganda’ is used a lot in political arguments. It has a dirty, sinister connotation, yet most people can’t quite spell out why that...
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Issue #2073
DINGO
Karl Marx exposed the real meaning of “free trade” in 1848. “What is free trade under the present condition of society?” he asked. “It is...
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Issue #2043
The Communist Manifesto turns 175
In Sydney, comrades are getting ready to demonstrate at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office against the government’s plan to spend an insane amount on preparations...
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Issue #2126
Pratt goes out of his way to prove Marx correct
Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt has announced that he now has his Green Card and will be a permanent resident of the United States. His packaging...
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Issue #2159
The meaning of ‘productivity’
“Each commodity represents a single unit of capitalist production; each is embedded with the congealed labour power, from the hands and the muscles and the...
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Issue #2120
DINGO
A word on the “drug trade.” The trade in illicit drugs is big business – very big business. It is carried on by a combination...
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Issue #2126
DINGO
The fact that the world has so far continued to buy dollars come what may has underpinned US power, funding its enormous deficits, themselves largely...
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Issue #2126
Woolies’ warehouse workers commence indefinite strike
On Thursday 21 November members of the United Workers’ Union (UWU) at four Woolworths distribution centres commenced an indefinite strike against their employer. Workers at...
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Issue #2127
Improve your Marx
The Communist Party of Australia WA organised a state-based party school on 23-24 November in Boorloo/Perth. This was part of the Central Committee Education Collective...
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