War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War beneath the Veil of Inflation lewrockwell.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lewrockwell.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ernest Haberkern
The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Volume One is a significant contribution to the literature of the anti-Stalinist left. Long buried in the archives the polemics and analyses of those socialists who refused to accept the definition of Stalin s barbaric regime as a workers state simply because property was nationalised and private property, large and small, was obliterated, deserve to see the light. My criticism of this anthology should in no way detract from the valuable contribution made and, in view of the promised second volume, the criticism may be premature.
Al Richardson, in his review (WL 53), rightly emphasises that the book is weak in its analysis of the structure of the regime, its contradictions, and its laws of motion. He also notes that this anthology represents the work of Max Shachtman. and of his co-thinkers. As I documented in my review of Peter Drucker s biography of Shachtman (WL 25 and 27) these two facts
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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.