Subjects Archives: Political Economy

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

Former Conindustria President Luigi Pisella, who is also a member of the Venezuelan government-created Special Commission for the Evaluation and Classification of Public Assets, has revealed that Washington retained approximately U.S. $4.7 billion of Venezuela’s oil-export income during the first half of 2026 as “payment” for the U.S. military operation that resulted in the January 3 bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

The Indo-U.S. Trade Agreement as it had been negotiated earlier, before its basis was knocked out by a court ruling on Trump tariffs, had been an “unequal treaty”, allowing the U.S. to charge much higher tariffs on Indian exports than the other way round, and stipulating amounts of American goods that India had to buy, but not the other way around.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Placing current developments in broad historical context, Pickard situates today’s media crisis within a century-long struggle to establish and maintain genuine public media against the overpowering dominance and relentless pushback of private corporate media.

Contemporary global political discourses are often noted for their intense polarization, in which elections are increasingly reduced from choices about governance and ideology to something more banal and ritualistic.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality.

The current yen crisis could only be resolved by a sharp rise in Japanese interest rates to encourage investors to hold Japanese financial assets. 

If you want to know how many lives our rulers are willing to sacrifice to defend the fossil fuel industry, you could start by looking at Europe.

Japanese workers get the bill first: a weaker currency, costlier food and fuel, and wages that buy less. They had no say in the war being waged in their name.

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

China’s Marxist economic policy was developed to deal with a specific country at a specific stage of development. But this does not mean that it is not relevant to other countries.

The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power, disciplining economies, financing war, and forcing the Global South to fund its own subordination.

“This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.”

The conference in Lahore centered on the principal contradictions of our time: world capitalism, neocolonialism, and imperialism on the one hand, and the forces resisting them on the other. It is rare for seminars like these to have such clarity of purpose.