A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” of capital to those it exploits. For sure, this is evident in some of Marx’s own writings. Witness points in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on [...]
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This mailing list will replace our old mailing list service, which was down for a while, and will stop working soon. If you were [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017). This is our [...]
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There can be no bigger compliment to George Lawson’s new book Anatomies of Revolution, than to invoke the figure of Fred Halliday. For the last six years of teaching a course on revolutions in the making of “the international”, I have used a quote to try and grab students’ attentions about [...]
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Perhaps granted much less attention than it merits, Henri Lefebvre in The Production of Space directly draws the reader’s attention to Marx’s Capital, Vol.3, and a focus on the ‘trinity’ formula (land, labour, capital) that transcends the capital-labour binary. Lefebvre asks us: ‘What of the [...]
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Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference
6-9 July, 2021, University of Sydney
The Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference will take place at the University of Sydney on [...]
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This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is Martha E. Giménez, Marx, Women and Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays (Haymarket Books, 2019).
This is our twentieth book in the reading [...]
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This post was originally published in 2012 as part of the hosting of Rodric Braithwaite as a guest speaker at the University of Nottingham. Although it is less about radical economics pedagogy, it is reproduced here as it is often used in my teaching to exemplify different ways of [...]
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