April 2012
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“An appreciable rise in wages presupposes a rapid growth of productive capital....”
– Karl Marx Wage Labour and Capital
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“We have to think about Socialism, read about it, discuss it; so that we may be...”
– H.G. Wells The Misery of Boots
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I wanted to make an English language version of...
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Marx on the welfare state and the so called...
“It is a pure tautology to say that crises are provoked by a lack of effective demand or effective consumption. […]. The fact that commodities are unsalable means no more than that no effective buyers have been found for them, i.e. no consumers (no matter whether the commodities are ultimately sold to meet the needs of productive or individual consumption). If the attempt is made to...
“Dialectical thinking is related to vulgar in the same way that a motion picture...”
– Leon Trotsky, The ABC of Materialist Dialectics (1939) 