Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Biographies and introductions to Marx Free to download

"Today, the Economics departments that actually take Marx seriously are limited to a handful in the US (e.g. at  UMass Amherst  and  The New School ), the UK (e.g. at  SOAS ), India (e.g. at  JNU ), Brazil, China, and in a few other countries scattered across the globe. Because of the Economics discipline’s lack of openness to alternative ways of thinking about Economics, studies by scholars from these departments will rarely make it into mainstream journals and students from these departments." Marx's birthday and the dismal science

There have always been Marxists in Labour but it has never been a Marxist party (or even, by some definitions, a socialist one). Its 2017 general election manifesto was social democratic in nature, vowing to reform rather than replace capitalism. But in his speech, McDonnell couched the party’s pledge to renationalise “water, rail, Royal Mail and energy” in more radical terms: “It’s a significant development as a result of the new exploration of the ideas of Marx.” John Mcdonnell and the rebirth of British marxism?