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    Originally published: The Brooklyn Rail on December 13, 2017 by Andy Battle (more by The Brooklyn Rail)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2017)

    In the years since the 2008 economic crisis, renewed interest in Marx and Marxism has begotten interest in heterogeneous varieties that in one way or another violate the framework of the “traditional,” “official,” or “orthodox” Marxism that underpinned the workers’ movement in Europe and state socialism in the countries of the Eastern bloc.

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    Soft shell, hard core: on the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital, Vol. 1

    Originally published: The Brooklyn Rail on October 5, 2017 by Ingo Stützle (more by The Brooklyn Rail)  | (Posted Oct 06, 2017)

    In bourgeois economic theory, competition, commodity production, profit seeking, and growth express something like the human essence. They are ahistorical constants, not the results of specifically capitalist relations that have historically emerged and can therefore be overcome. This is exactly what makes Marx’s critique of economics highly topical.

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