• | Marx | MR Online

    Some comments about Marx’s epistemology

    Marx’s eleventh thesis on Feurbach: “the philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways, the point is to change it”, has been often taken to mean that interpreting the world and changing the world are two separate and disconnected activities.

  • | New Yorks Sidewalks Are So Packed Pedestrians Are Taking to the The New York Times | MR Online

    It is imperative to reconstruct the Internationale of workers and peoples

    For the last thirty years the world system has undergone an extreme centralization of power in all its dimensions, local and international, economic and military, social and cultural.

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    Do Purchasing Power Parity exchange rates mislead on incomes? The case of China

    Ever since Larry Summers and Alan Heston produced what become known as the “Penn World Tables” comparing prices and thereby the purchasing power of currencies across countries, the urge to use some deflator of market exchange rates to compare incomes across countries has been strong.

  • | Enjoy capitalism by any means | MR Online

    Neo-liberal capitalism and its crisis

    “Neo-liberal capitalism” is the term used to describe the phase of capitalism where restrictions on the global flows of commodities and capital, including capital in the form of finance, have been substantially removed.