Dilemmas of great and good
Mainstream economists cannot provide the answers needed to revive a system mired in stagnation. Michael Roberts reports on the annual gathering of the American Economic Association
The conference of the American Economic Association was unusual this year, for obvious reasons. Instead of 13,000 academic and professional economists descending on an American city to present and discuss hundreds of submitted papers over a few days, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, ASSA 2021, as the conference was called, was virtual. Despite that, there were a host of papers presented - along with plenaries of the great and good in mainstream economics and economic policy.
Rosa Luxemburgo: espontaneidad revolucionaria e internacionalismo
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Rosa Luxemburgo: el Águila Revolucionaria
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Engels’ original sin?
Mike Macnair reviews Marx, Engels and modern British socialism: the political thought of HM Hyndman, EB
Bax and William Morris by Seamus Flaherty
British socialism has a history before the founding of the Labour Party in 1900 (or, for that matter, before the 1918 extension of the franchise allowed Labour to break through into double figures in percentage support). This history was one of small groups, single-issue campaigns, fairly weak trade unions and miscellaneous intellectual influencers. It issued out of the heavy defeats of Chartism, and of the European revolutions of 1848.
In that sense the history of socialism between the defeat of Chartism and the rise of the Labour Party has some limited similarities to the left politics of our own time - also one of small groups, single-issue campaigns, weak trade unions and so on, and also issuing out of a very serious defeat for left projects: not just the fall of the Soviet bloc, but also the abandonment o
Quando os social-democratas mandaram matar Rosa Luxemburgo
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