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Marxism and finance capital

Source: Bottomore, Tom. “Finance Capital.” A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1985, pp. 172–177. The following text is presented under the terms of Fair Use. finance capital   The only form of capital that was not theorized by Marx but … Continue reading

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Li Ta-chao, a Founder of the Chinese Communist Party

Author: Liu Nung-chao1 Source: People’s China, July 1957; No. 13, p.24-29. Transcribed/HTML: Mike B. for marxists.org, 2013 Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2013). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet … Continue reading

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Žižek and world economy, reconsidered

Upon reading Stefan Sullivan’s Marxism for a Post-Communist Society years ago, I was somewhat excited by the work, not so much for Sullivan’s basic conclusions (including his assertion that it is necessary to separate those like Luxemburg and Lenin from … Continue reading

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Between Catholicism and Marxism

For much of the 20th century, the Catholic Church and the worldwide communist movement were pitted against one another, portrayed as natural enemies by the highest echelons of the Church hierarchy, including the virulently anti-communist Pope John Paul II. It … Continue reading

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