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Published bimonthly since 1986, AGAINST THE CURRENT is a Solidarity-sponsored analytical journal for the broad revolutionary left. The May/June 2012 issue features a Marxist reflection on patriotism and flag fetishism by Bertell Ollman. Malik Miah examines the murder of Trayvon Martin, James Clark discusses the Occupy movement, Bill Balderson and Claudette Begin lay out the problems and potential around the California Millionaires Tax campaign and Dianne Feeley describes the state takeover of Motor City. ATC’s international coverage includes Alexi Gusev’s perspectives on Putin’s Russia, Joana Mortágua on Portuguese workers opposition to austerity policies and an interview with Carl Finamore following his second trip to Egypt during their year of revolution. Subscribe today!
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International Viewpoint is the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International. IV is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.
05/20/12 14:43
The outcome of the November 2012 election is clear: It will be the most vicious and racist in modern U.S. history, and by far the most expensive of all time. Are critical issues at stake in this political year? Absolutely, yes — but not the questions we'll get to vote on.
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05/20/12 14:39
We print the speech made by Dharmasiri Lankapeli, member of the Politbureau of the Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP – Sri Lanka section of the Fourth International) at the joint opposition demonstration and rally on International Workers Day in Jaffna.
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IV448 - May 2012
05/19/12 16:42
Six months after the formation of the Monti government, the popularity the professor-ministers had enjoyed through the discredit which had accompanied the end of the Berlusconi era has begun to wane, even if the horizon does not present any credible political alternative.
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IV448 - May 2012
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an extreme distortion of marx's theory of value.
'human values' are more important than 'money values'?! did marx really spend decades of his life analyzing capital to come to that rigid and extremely facile antithesis? is this the kind of trenchant insight we can expect from the debt-financed, self-proclaimed 'intellectual left' that has no organic ties to labour and yet dons the garb of revolutionary marxism?
marx NEVER used the term 'abstract value' in the sense used here. rather he was at pains to show that exchange-value was NOT just abstract, but had as its secret, DEFINITE relations of production taking the form of 'abstract human labour' measured in labour-time. 'abstract' here does not mean 'made up' or 'unreal', but 'without particulars', in this case referring to the very real and palpable 'expenditure of human brains, muscles, nerves, hands etc.' that all forms of labour have in common.
i didn't hear mcnally mention the word 'labour' once, effectively extirpating the very heart of marx's work which is his LABOUR theory of value. how he could have progressed all the way to volume three having failed to grasp the most important element of the whole of marx's political economy is shocking considering he is being paid to teach the stuff. the whole theory rests on the hidden UNITY of so-called 'human values' and 'exchange-value', which is what the so-called 'intellectual left' should be pointing out, and not their dazzling APPARENT antithesis that can be seen by even us non-academics at a quick glance.
lots of other mistakes too, packed into a mere 15 minutes, such as the confusion of 'world-money', which as marx says always takes the form of bullion, with so-called 'non-commodified' money [another meaningless term marx NEVER used]. the IMF, the very instrument of 'globalization', is in fact also charged with assessing and maintaining an international gold standard, hence 'WORLD-money'. nixon de-nationalized the gold standard in order to finance the vietnam war, i.e., slaughter the international revolutionary working-class. the 'hidden' connection between money and labour is far more overt in material reality than in the head of david mcnally.