Over at workers' liberty they've got six new interviews with marxist academics on the crisis of capitalism: Fred Moseley: The Bondholders and the Taxpayers Leo Panitch: The Chain Broke at its Weakest Link Andrew Kliman: The Level of Debt is Astronomical David Laibman: The Onset of Great Depression II: Conceptualising the Crisis Costas Lapavitsas: The debacle of financialised capitalism Andrew Kliman and David Laibman's interviews give the most comprehensive interpretation. Laibman provides an interesting tripartite historical schema of capitalist crises, and emphasizes the balance of forces between capital and labor in a way that echoes autonomist interpretations (eg. Caffentzis and Federici) |
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Six marxists analyze the crisisposted Feb 17, 2009 12:01 PM by John Clegg |