Charles Post assesses Neil Davidson's posthumous book on neoliberalism, which makes a key contribution to the Marxist analysis of contemporary capitalism.
The book relates how the real proletarian revolution in Spain in 1936 was hijacked by political forces across the whole spectrum, fascist and anti-fascist, hence the title, counter-revolution, 1936-39. It is the complete work, published in «Bilan»: Contre-revolution en Espagne, 1936-1939, and republished in a shorter form in a pamphlet, under the title, Fascism/anti-fascism.
December brought the publication of The Return of Inflation: Money and Capital in the Twenty-First Century (London: Reaktion, 2023), by Paul Mattick, who is—full disclosure—the Field Notes editor. Members of the Berlin collective Friends of the Classless Society thought that a conversation about issues raised by the book would be helpful because of the obfuscation and difficulty normally associated with discussion of money.