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The days when Marx’s ideas were assumed to be incompatible with environmentalism and in need of greening are thankfully past. But of course, the degrowth debate is far from settled.
Reviewer Tetler assesses Harvey's commentary on Marx's famous and influential early work.
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The Right never seems to stop talking about “Marxism” and its wily tricks. But for all their denunciations, conservative pundits really just keep proving they don’t even know the basics of Karl Marx’s thought.
The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.
Marxist historians in Britain — like E. P. Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm — sparked a revolution in understanding the role of working people in making history. Their work is still fresh and vibrant today.
While industrial capitalism got rid of the landlord class, capitalism still had economic rent, but instead of being paid to the landlord class, it is now paid to the banks in the form of interest.
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Working for the New York Daily Tribune, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost
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