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RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism. Standard Online index. The Socialist Standard is a monthly socialist newspaper published without interruption since 1904 by the Socialist Party of Great Britain. The newspaper is written in a simple, direct style and focuses mainly on socialist advocacy and Marxian analysis of current events, particularly those affecting the United Kingdom. It was placed on a secret list of papers and magazines banned for export during World War I, for its call for workers to refuse to fight for their countries and instead join the class war. In 1915 it published an article written by a member of the Bolshevik party calling for a socialist solution to the war.

In 1918, however, the paper voiced the first doubts of the SPGB regarding the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. In the 1930s it drew on the reports from Spain to produce articles on the looming menace of aerial warfare. The SPGB maintains that it is not a left-wing organisation nor its journal, The Socialist Standard a left-wing journal. In Defence of Marxism.

Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Reading Capital. Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey – 2019 Edition A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey. Recorded at The People’s Forum in New York City in 2019. Links to the complete course: YouTube Playlist Podcast available on Spotify, iTunes, PodBean, and RSS. Course Materials: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey – 2007 Edition A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

YouTube Playlist Subscribe to a course as a video or audio podcast: Help make this Capital v1 course accessible in other languages: join our translation project These lectures were the inspiration for the book: A Companion to Marx’s Capital published by Verso in 2010. Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Harvey A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 2 (plus parts of Volume 3) in 12 video lectures by Professor David Harvey (2012). YouTube Playlist. Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Blog Archive » Reading Marx’s Capital – Class 3, Chapter 3. SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK. Why Socialism? Albert Einstein - Monthly Review. Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year. —The Editors Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism?

I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. But historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called “the predatory phase” of human development. Second, socialism is directed towards a social-ethical end. For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.