apologies if this is too simple minded to make much sense -- It seems to me that the problem created by the equalization of profit rates across firms and industries which is a TENDENCY of the competit

and speaking of the "long depression" which ends ROberts' piece, I just read SEVEN THESES ON AMERICAN POLITICS by RObert Brenner and Dylan RIley in the NOV/;DEC 2022 issue of NEW LEFT REVIEW. I recomm

As someone who didn't know Andy but also is "of a certain age" I think those of us still around need to re-double our efforts --- take to heart the line from that old HOLLY NEAR song: "So I'll keep do

I would bet most comrades on this list (not me unfortunately) had read the book as well as this review -- It is AMAZING how "out of date" so much of this argumentation is --- the rise of China and the

I read Probsting's piece and it seems he agrees that we are in a phase like the period before WW I of inter-imperialist rivalry ...

Dennis' point about Carter and neo-liberalism is VERY important. When he was elected, he had Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress and he was unwilling to lift a finger for some VERY MILD l

Dear Andrew --- thank you so much. I wonder if the haranging that the other Andrew and his comrades endured was part of the Laroush-ite Labor Party's effort to "destroy" the Communist Party. (although

Many thanks to Dayne for sharing this article -- which I found VERY illuminating -- I highly recommend it ...

the Chinese almost certainly have a long memory --- and a long time horizon ---In 1954 they played a strong role in "encouraging" the Vietnamese to settle for "half a loaf" at Geneva --- they may be i

Thank you Marv for that thoughtful response --- I acknowledge that I was thinking out loud --- so here goes another "round" ME: I don't think I believe that -- though the "incorporation" of Estonia, L

Comrade John --- My first reaction to your post was a niggling suspicion that the LAW OF VALUE is quite different from Marx's LABOR THEORY of VALUE --- from my (dim) memory, I always thought the "law

Dear Comrades -- What follows is some off the top of my head thinking --- I have not written and re-written, just thinking --- (and I apologize -- a) if much of what I write is obvious, and b) if I ta

and on that issue of neo-liberalism and the Democratic Party I recommend Joel Rogers and Thomas Ferguson's RIGHT TURN which is about the Democrats abandoning all pretense of supporting the Roosevelt c

I was quoting the title of a book --- and if I remember correctly (it was back in 1987) Bowles and Gintis were arguing that capitalism is INCOMPATIBLE with democracy --- I usually try to refer to the

My only complaint about this VERY USEFUL review article is that they fail to remind us of the earlier work: Charles K. Lindbloom -- POLITICS and MARKETS and Sam Bowles and Herb Gintis --- DEMOCRACY an

Beard's wife MARY wrote some very left wing analyses of women's higher education among others --- She and he co-wrote a full history of the US (forget the title right this minute) which dubbed the CIv

Victor Grossman defected to East Germany in 1955 (he was an AMerican GI who had joined the Communist Party in the US ....) and has lived there ever since ... I found this very interesting ... --------

thank you so much, Mark ---- members of the group, this article is VERY MUCH WORTH READING closely -- Stephen Jay Gould was a giant both as a scientist and as a human being --

and let's also remember, that the Vietnamese played it very cool --- agreeing to "negotiate" while insisting that Nixon's plan for all "non- South Vietnamese" to leave "South" Vietnam was a non starte

Fred, I tried the link and it wouldn't open ...