This is the first part of a series of articles by Nick Beams, a member of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, dealing with the life and work of radical political ...

The last great movement in continental philosophy is called speculative realism. One of the leading figures of this movement is Graham Harman, a philosopher who sees objects as fundamentally ...

American economics departments don't teach Karl Marx or Arthur Laffer for the same reason: Their economic theories were wrong ...

American economics departments don't teach Karl Marx or Arthur Laffer for the same reason: their economic theories were wrong ...

CounterPunch recently republished two compelling articles about Herbert Marcuse. Charles Reitz’s study, “When Marxist Intellectuals Collaborated With the ...

Paul Mattick, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. David McNally, Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance.

It’s certainly an ill century of mass destruction and economic upheaval that blows no one any good. In the buzz-generating (at least on the left) new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, ...

Theories of crisis have always been intensely political. Different views of capitalist development and breakdown have always shaped, and been shaped by, political strategies. In the early and ...

I saw the best minds of my generation recruited by McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater. The rest of us became Marxists. There have now been quite a few attempts to account for a sudden ...