Marcello Musto
 
Abstract
The debate on the structure of Marx's Capital, and on the probable explanations for the changes he made to the initial “six books plan”, has always been a relevant topic in Marxist studies. This article provides a more exhaustive account of the genesis of Capital, on the basis of a revisitation of Marx's intellectual bi......

 

Kurt von Seekamm, Jr.
 
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Rent seeking has once again become an important topic in economics. However, rent seeking poses challenges that standard economic theory is not well equipped to handle. This paper develops a working definition of rent seeking that can be applied to post-Keynesian growth models. The main finding is that, in a post......

 
Marx and Engels attached great importance to maintaining the purity of proletarian party. Although they did not systematically propose related theories, they have developed initial thoughts of maintaining the party's purity and brought forward primary design,institution,principles,samples,requirements,and direction for the purpose. As the world......

 
Wilhelm Londoño and Pablo Alonso González
 
Abstract
The authors examine the implications of both a recent international ruling at The Hague curtailing fishing rights and the encroaching Colombian-based tourist industry for Raizals – descendants of African slaves brought by the British to the islands of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Ca......

David M. Kotz 
 
Abstract
This paper locates social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory in relation to traditional Marxism. It then applies SSA theory to analyze the current trajectory of system transformation in the global system. Drawing lessons from the global crisis of the 1930s, it uses SSA theory to illuminate the causes and possible cons......

 
 
 
Abstract
If a failed hope could still have an afterlife, then what happened to the people who believed in constructivism? For these architects, professional survival was top priority. Many—like Moisei Ginzburg, Ivan Leonidov, and Mikhaïl Korjev—tried to find a specialized niche wherein they could work according to their artistic convict......

 
Paul Kellogg
 
Abstract
We are entering the centenary of the revolutionary upheavals which convulsed Europe and Asia in the wake of the First World War. Sustained by those upheavals, a new left emerged grappling with the daunting challenges of trying to create an alternative to capitalism and war. John Riddell's three decades of effort to make av......

Vasilis Grollios
 
Abstract
As a contribution to the ongoing discussion of radical politics today, this paper offers a critique of the social theory of the Communist Party of Greece in order to demonstrate how key features of first-generation Frankfurt School Critical Theory, informed by negative dialectics, can be of a twofold use. They can be us......

坚持科学社会主义基本原则，并根据时代条件赋予其鲜明的中国特色，是我们党从90多年的革命、建设和改革的历程中获得的一条基本经验。一方面，“中国特色社会主义是社会主义而不是其他什么主义，科学社会主义基本原则不能丢，丢了就不是社会主义”。[1](P22)另一方面，中国特色社会主义是科学社会主义理论逻辑和中国社会发展历史逻辑的辩证统一，“是根植于中国大地、反映中国人......

 
 
［摘要］党的十九大确立了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为党的指导思想，在这一思想的指引下，中华民族完成了从站起来、富起来到强起来的伟大飞跃，从中国发展大角度看，为世界提供了中国自信，具有重大的世界意义；从人类发展大潮流看，中国特色社会主义道路作为一种全新参照，从价值观、发展观以及对外关系上为世界提供了中国理念；从世界变化大格局看，中国构建人类......