Schlagwort: Marxism Today
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Michael Roberts: A capitalist new dawn?
[Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990, p. 33-37] The theory of ‘Post-Fordism’ denies that socialism is the next progressive stage in the development of the productive forces. Michael Roberts examines the arguments. The theorists of modern capitalism have latched onto the collapse of Stalinism in Eastern Europe to proclaim the permanent triumph of capitalism.…
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Peter Taaffe: Can Labour win?
(Militant International Review, No. 39, Spring 1989) By Peter Taaffe The guiding principle of Labour’s leadership has been ‚NUNGE‘, (Nothing Until after the Next General Election). Indeed it has at times been their only ‚principle‘! Any attempt to go outside the prescribed narrow parliamentary boundaries has evoked the wrath of Labour’s front bench. In the…
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Lynn Walsh: Comment – Dodging The Taxing Questions
[Militant International Review, No 34, Spring 1987, p. 15-17] Prologue: A costly trip Last Summer, Labour’s deputy leader, Roy Hattersley, addressed a select covey of bankers and financiers at New York’s plush Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The trip was paid for by city stockbrokers, Samuel Montague (a subsidiary of Midland Bank). The aim, according to the…