Baharestan Square, Tehran, 24 June 2009

Posted Jun 24, 2009 by Technical Support

Protesters clashed with the Iranian riot police in the streets around Baharestan Square, Tehran, today.

The state and accumulation under contemporary capitalism Paramjit Singh
Historically, capitalism develops institutions and ideologies that justify surplus extraction and capital accumulation. In the last decades of the twentieth century, the financialization of capitalism initiated a new era of accumulation which is known in academic contexts as finance-capital-driven neoliberalism.
Sweezy on the rise of fascism Fabian Van Onzen
Both Sweezy and Dimitrov agree that fascism arises in the middle class and becomes a threat when the bourgeoisie embraces it, but Sweezy’s unique contribution is to demonstrate fascism’s relationship to the postwar transitional period of class equilibrium.