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Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx
by
Chris Harman
We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September�October 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of "the end of capitalism as we knew...more
Paperback, 425 pages
Published
November 16th 2010
by Haymarket Books
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This DENSE book is my first proper introduction to marxism and exposé on capitalism. It is one of those books that I will struggle to get through over a year + just because it is filled with so many insightful critiques and logical explanations on capitalism; seemingly in every paragraph if not every sentence:
"The law of value operates between enterprises through the market. Within the enterprise it has to be imposed by conscious regulation on the part of the capitalist. Planning within capital...more
"The law of value operates between enterprises through the market. Within the enterprise it has to be imposed by conscious regulation on the part of the capitalist. Planning within capital...more
Solid book offering an integrated argument about the function of Marx and Marxist though to understanding the credit crunch and crash.
Brilliant, a must read. Longer review to follow soon.
very well written and encompassing. explains a lot of the key economics of marxism and the dynamics of the system today. recommend.
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British journalist and political activist for the Socialist Workers Party.
Harmann was involved with activism against the Viet Nam war but became controversial for denouncing Ho Chi Minh for murdering the leader of the Vietnamese Trotskists.
Harman's work on May 1968 in France and other student and workers uprisings of the late 1960s, The Fire Last Time, was recommended by rock band Rage Against th...more
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Harmann was involved with activism against the Viet Nam war but became controversial for denouncing Ho Chi Minh for murdering the leader of the Vietnamese Trotskists.
Harman's work on May 1968 in France and other student and workers uprisings of the late 1960s, The Fire Last Time, was recommended by rock band Rage Against th...more
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