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Category: Causes of Crisis

Grace Lee Boggs: Naming the Enemy

June 28, 2017

This article was originally posted on the Boggs Center’s website. A specter is haunting the American people– the specter of destruction by capitalism. In its limitless quest for profits capitalism […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Expressions of Crisis

Moishe Postone: Capitalism, Temporality, and the Crisis of Labor

May 24, 2017

This Lecture was presented by the American Academy in Berlin. “The current crisis has laid bare the contradictory and shaky character of contemporary capitalism. Yet the essentially inchoate responses to […]

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  • Causes of Crisis

Wolfgang Streeck: How Will Capitalism End? (¿Cómo terminará el capitalismo? – incluído en Español)

April 11, 2017

This article was originally published in the New Left Review.  En español aquí. There is a widespread sense today that capitalism is in critical condition, more so than at any time […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions
  • Economic Crisis

Eric Cheyfitz: The Disinformation Age

March 28, 2017

“My meaning of disinformation is a real historical break in political discourse so that what begins to happen – and it is reflexive rather than conscious or planned by any particular […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Collapse of Knowledge
  • Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions
  • Radio Bemba

David Graeber: Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit

March 27, 2017

This article was originally published in The Baffler. A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Collapse of Knowledge
  • Desertification of Subjective Life

Havin Guneser: On Kurdish Struggle at EZLN Hydra Seminar

December 30, 2016

“Without understanding how masculinity was socially formed, one cannot analyze the institution of state and therefore will not be accurately be able to define the war and power culture related […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Expressions of Crisis
  • Global Eliminationist War
  • What Is To Be Done

Paul Mattick with John Clegg and Aaron Benanav: The Economic Crisis in Fact and Fiction

December 30, 2016

This article was originally published June 3, 2011 in The Brooklyn Rail. Paul Mattick’s most recent book, Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism, was just […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Economic Crisis
  • Expressions of Crisis

Kali Akuno: Until We Win: Black Labor and Liberation in the Disposable Era

December 30, 2016

This article was originally published Sep 4, 2015 in Counterpunch. Since the rebellion in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, Black people throughout the United States have been grappling with a […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Decomposition of State and Representative Institutions
  • Expressions of Crisis
  • Global Eliminationist War
  • Mass Dispossession
  • What Is To Be Done

Krisis Group: Manifesto Against Labour

December 30, 2016

This article was originally published Dec 31, 1999 by the Krisis Group. 1. The rule of dead labour A corpse rules society – the corpse of labour. All powers around […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Desertification of Subjective Life
  • Economic Crisis
  • Expressions of Crisis
  • What Is To Be Done

Immanuel Wallerstein: Secular Stagnation, or is it worse?

December 28, 2016

This article was originally published Sep 15, 2016 in Agence Global.  The world’s economists have been wrestling with something they have found difficult to explain. Why is it that stock […]

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  • Causes of Crisis
  • Economic Crisis
  • Expressions of Crisis
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