Ben Fine

Alfredo Saad-Filho

Marx's Capital Fourth Edition

Lecio Morais

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years. However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is precarious. Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980 onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics, yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and intertwined.

Neoliberalism versus Democracy

Brazil

Galip L. Yalman

Neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose, under the veil of ‘non-intervention’, a hegemonic project of recomposition of capitalist rule in most areas of social life. The tensions and displacements embedded within global neoliberalism are nowhere more evident than in the middle-income countries. At the domestic level, the neoliberal transitions have transformed significantly the material basis of social reproduction in these countries. These transformations include, but they are not limited to, shifts in economic and social policy. They also encompass the structure of property, the modality of insertion of the country into the international economy, and the domestic forms of exploitation and social domination. The political counterpart of these processes is the limitation of the domestic political sphere through the insulation of ‘markets’ and investors from social accountability and the imposition of a stronger imperative of labour control, allegedly in order to secure international competitiveness. These economic and political shifts have reduced the scope for universal welfare provision and led to regressive distributive shifts and higher unemployment and job insecurity in most countries. They have also created an income-concentrating dynamics of accumulation that has proven immune to Keynesian and reformist interventions. This book examines these challenges and dilemmas analytically, and empirically in different national contexts. This edited collection offers a theoretical critique of neoliberalism and a review of the contrasting experiences of eight middle-income countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey and Venezuela). The studies included are interdisciplinary, ranging across economics, sociology, anthropology, international relations, political science and related social sciences. The book focuses on a materialist understanding of the workings of neoliberalism as a modality of social and economic reproduction, and its everyday practices of dispossession and exploitation. It will therefore be of particular interest to scholars in industrial policy, neoliberalism and development strategy.

Policy Dilemmas, Crises, Mass Resistance

Economic Transitions to Neoliberalism in Middle-Income Countries

An ideal introduction for all activists to the most pressing problems of our times.

A Marxist Introduction

Anti-Capitalism

Marco Boffo

This Companion takes stock of the trajectory, achievements, shortcomings and prospects of Marxist political economy. It reflects the contributors' shared commitment to bringing the methods, theories and concepts of Marx himself to bear across a wide range of topics and perspectives, and it provides a testimony to the continuing purpose and vitality of Marxist political economy. As a whole, this volume analyzes Marxist political economy in three areas: the critique of mainstream economics in all of its versions; the critical presence of Marxist political economy within, and its influence upon, each of the social science disciplines; and, cutting across these, the analysis of specific topics that straddle disciplinary boundaries. Some of the contributions offer an exposition of basic concepts, accessible to the general reader, laying out Marx's own contribution, its significance, and subsequent positions and debates with and within Marxist political economy. The authors offer assessments of historical developments to and within capitalism, and of its current character and prospects. Other chapters adopt a mirror-image approach of pinpointing the conditions of contemporary capitalism as a way of interrogating the continuing salience of Marxist analysis. This volume will inform and inspire a new generation of students and scholars to become familiar with Marxist political economy from an enlightened and unprejudiced position, and to use their knowledge as both a resource and gateway to future study.

The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics

Despite the unprecedented gravity of the challenges posed by global warming, most political systems have not given them the required priority. The oil industry has resisted, and many countries have taken only token measures to reduce emissions and mitigate the worst effects. In this context, this book examines the progressive options available to today’s developing countries as they face the limitations of neoliberalism and the existential challenge of global warming. Examining the cases of both low-income fossil fuel-dependent economies and large middle-income economies, this book argues that for all developing economies the best way forward includes ‘green’ macroeconomic policies articulated with progressive industrial and social policies, thus allowing these countries to achieve economic diversification, build alternative drivers of growth, and deliver improvements in the distribution of income, wealth and power. There is urgent need for this progressive policy agenda - grounded on heterodox economics, committed to social integration and the reduction of multiple inequalities - to improve the economic outcomes for these countries, improve the lives of citizens and meet global climate targets. The book argues that capitalism challenges the possibility of free and dignified existence while climate change challenges the possibility of life itself, and that these challenges must be confronted together. Since neoliberal capitalism will not adopt the necessary policies to reduce carbon emissions rapidly, it must be overthrown – not only for ethical or logical reasons, or to shift to better arrangements for the functioning of society, but in order to preserve the conditions for life itself. This agenda for progressive economic development is essential reading for anyone interested in heterodox economics, development studies, international politics, international relations and sustainable business.

Economic Diversification and Social Inclusion after Climate Change

Progressive Policies for Economic Development

Brazil is the world's sixth largest economy, has played a key role as one of the 'pink wave' administrations in Latin America, and was also responsible for wrecking the US-sponsored proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas. It is also one of the few large countries where social spending has risen and the distribution of income has improved in the last thirty years.However, as protests during the World Cup in 2014 have shown, the country remains highly unequal, unmet social needs are vast and its infrastructure is precarious.Alfredo Saad-Filho and Lecio Morais review the paradox that is modern-day Brazil. Focusing on the period from 1980 onwards, they analyse the tensions between the two systemic transitions to have dominated the country: the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism. The authors show how these transitions had contradictory logics and dynamics, yet ultimately became mutually supportive as they unfolded and intertwined.

Neoliberalism Versus Democracy

This book collects essays on the political economy of Brazil, focusing on the administrations led by the Workers' Party, under Presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff (2003-16). The essays examine the economic, political, and social aspects of these governments.

The PT Governments in the Eye of the Storm

Neoliberalism Or Developmentalism

Bilimsel sosyalizmin Komünist Manifesto ile insanlığın önüne açık bir programla çıktığı 1848 yılından bugüne neler değişti dünyamızda? Geçen zaman içinde oluşan değişiklikler, hele Sovyet bloğunun çözülmesi ve kapitalizmin kendini yenileme yeteneği, Manifesto'da dile getirilen düşünce ve öngörüleri yanlışlamadı mı? Öyle ya, aç gözlü serbest piyasacılar, sermayeye bağlanmış akademisyenler, ayrıcalıklı gazeteciler ve siyaset erbabı: sosyalizm öldü, kapitalizmden başka alternatif yok, deyip durmuyorlar mı? Onlara inanacak olursak; insanlar genetik yönden açgözlü olmaya programlanmıştır, kapitalizm bir doğa kanunudur ve çokuluslu sermaye haklıdır... Kapitalizme Reddiye, gücünü çok ağızdan durmadan tekrarlanmasından alan bu basmakalıp iddiaların geçersizliğini göstermek için hazırlandı. Çağdaş kapitalizmin yapısal özelliklerini ve açmazlarını sergiliyor. Değer kuramı ve sömürü, sınıflar ve sınıf mücadelesi, teknolojik değişiklikler, ekolojik sorunlar ve daha pek çok konuya yoğunlaşarak kapitalizmin varlığının insanlığın bugünü ve geleceği için nasıl bir tehdit oluşturduğunu gösteriyor. Marksizm'in bugün de geçerli ve yol gösterici olduğu sonucuna varıyor.

Kapitalizme Reddiye

"Kapitalizmin belalısı" Karl Marx'ın temel yapıtları ve özellikle de Kapital'i, çağdaş kapitalizmi anlamaya ve açıklamaya yeterli mi? Neoklasik iktisatçılar ve ister "neo" olsun, ister "post", liberaller bir kenara ayrıldığında; Marksizmin komşuluğunda yer alan yeni Hegelciler, Sraffacılar, postkeynesçiler, yeni Ricardo'cular, Yeni Yorumcular vb. geliştirdikleri eleştirilerle, onun kapitalizmi açıklama gücüne yeni bir şeyler katabildiler mi? Yoksa, Marksizmin asıl kaynaklarını ve yöntemini, Kapital'in temel kavram ve yaklaşımlarını öne çıkararak; çağdaş kapitalizmin görüngülerini, emeğin, değerin ve paranın bugünkü hallerini açıklamak mümkün mü? Filho'nun kitabı, bu tür sorulara yanıt arıyor. Marksizme ekonomi politik alanında gelen tüm kayda değer eleştirileri karşılıyor. Çağdaş kapitalizmi anlamaya dönük yeni ufuklar açıyor. Yazar, Kapital'in temel kavramlarını çağdaş kapitalizme yansıtırken, "Marx'ın Değeri"ni de ortaya koyuyor. Günümüz kapitalizmini anlamak, Marksizmin açıklama gücünü yeniden kavramak için...

Çağdaş Kapitalizm için Ekonomi Politik

Marx'ın Değeri

Deborah Johnston

İçinde yaşadığımız neoliberalizm çağı, dünyadaki milyarlarca insanın yaşamını iktisat, siyaset, uluslararası ilişkiler, ideoloji, kültür... gibi çok farklı alanlarda fazlasıyla etkiliyor. Kısa sürede böylesine yaygın ve etkili bir hâl almış olan neoliberalizmi değerlendirmek, hem düşünsel hem de siyasi nedenlerle elzemdir. Elinizdeki seçki, neoliberalizmi eleştirel bir yaklaşımla çok farklı açılardan ele alan, konuyla ilgili aktivistler, öğrenciler ve sosyal bilimciler için araştırma gündemini ana hatlarıyla ortaya koyan 30 bölümden oluşuyor. Kuramsal, uygulamalı ve tarihsel bölümler olmak üzere üç grupta toplanmış olmalarına karşın, bu seçkide yer alan makaleler bazı önemli özellikleri paylaşıyorlar. Öncelikle, neoliberalizmin kökenlerini, doğasını ve sonuçlarını radikal ekonomi politiğin bakış açısından inceliyorlar. İkincisi, farklı geleneklerden gelmelerine karşın, birbirleriyle yakından ilişkililer. Üçüncüsü, bu makaleler neoliberalizmin radikal, yani konunun özüne inen bir eleştirisini sunuyorlar. Neoliberalizmin, gücü ve zenginliği dünyanın dört bir tarafındaki seçkin grupların ellerinde yoğunlaştıran, özellikle de her ülkedeki finans gruplarının çıkarlarına ve uluslararası boyutta ABD sermayesine fayda sağlayan hegemonik projenin bir parçası olduğunu ortaya koyuyorlar. "Harika! Neoliberalizme en keskin eleştirileri yönelten araştırmacıları bir araya getiren bu çalışma, itibarını zaten yitirmiş olan sağ iktisadi rejimin yıkıcılığı hakkında mükemmel bir iddianame sunuyor." (Profesör Michael Perelman, Kaliforniya Devlet Üniversitesi) "... bu kitap, neoliberalizmin çağdaş kapitalizmin geçici bir aşamasından ibaret olmadığını ortaya koyuyor. Kısacası, neoliberalizm kapitalizmden bir sapma olmayıp aksine onun içkin bir yönüdür." (Profesör Ben Fine, Londra Üniversitesi) "...yaşamı tehdit eden neoliberal ideoloji hakkında az sayıdaki güvenilir kılavuzdan biri..." (Profesör Leslie Sklair, Londra İktisat Okulu)

Muhalif Bir Seçki

Neoliberalizm

This book offers an analysis of the causes, development, and likely consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for global neoliberalism. The analysis will draw upon the author’s previous work on neoliberalism, and on its twin crises: the economic crisis (the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), ongoing since 2007) and, subsequently, the crisis of political democracy that has been associated with the rise of ‘spectacular’ authoritarian leaders in several countries. The approach is grounded on Marxist political economy. The book argues that the Covid-19 pandemic emerges out of this context of deep inequalities and crises in the economy and in politics, and it is likely to reinforce the exclusionary tendencies of neoliberalism, with detrimental implications both for economic prosperity and for democracy. In turn, the pandemic has revealed the limitations of neoliberalism like never before, with implications for the legitimacy of capitalism itself, and opening unprecedented spaces for the left. This book will be of interest to academics in economics, international relations, political science, political economy, sociology and development studies.

Neoliberalism, the Collapse of Democracy, and the Pandemic

The Age of Crisis

This brilliantly concise book has established itself over twenty-five years and five editions as the standard companion to Karl Marx s most important work, the sprawling "Capital." This new edition retains the features that have made it a crucial teaching tool a clear explanation of the structure of Marx s analysis, an exploration of his method and terminology, and the significance of his central concepts while also bringing it fully up to date with the latest scholarship and a clearly written analysis of the continuing relevance of "Capital" to today s ongoing discussions of politics, economics, and the struggles of capitalism. "

Marx's 'Capital'

Linda Gordon

Jane Duncan

Gunnett Kaaf

Dale T McKinley

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Devan Pillay

Mandla J Radebe

Ingar Solty

A history of the erosion of democracy across the globe Democracy is being destroyed. This is a crisis that expresses itself in the rising authoritarianism visible in divisive and exclusionary politics, populist political parties and movements, increased distrust in fact-based information and news, and the withering accountability of state institutions. Over the last four decades, democracy has radically shifted to a market democracy in which all aspects of human, non-human and planetary life are commodified, with corporations becoming more powerful than states and their citizens. This is how neoliberal capitalism functions at a systemic level and if left unchecked, is the greatest threat to democracy and a sustainable planet. Volume six of the Democratic Marxism series focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, authoritarian politics are gaining ground. Scholars and activists from the political left focus on four country cases – India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States of America – in which the COVID-19 pandemic has fuelled and highlighted the pre-existing crisis. They interrogate issues of politics, ecology, state security, media, access to information and political parties, and affirm the need to reclaim and re-build an expansive and inclusive democracy. Destroying Democracy is an invaluable resource for the general public, activists, scholars and students who are interested in understanding the threats to democracy and the rising tide of authoritarianism in the global south and the global north.

Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics

Destroying Democracy

Fully revised and updated sixth edition of the internationally established guide to Marx's Capital.

Alfredo Saad-Filho

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