[Craic] Fwd: Political Hope in Search of an Agent // Canadian Dimension Newsletter

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> Political Hope in Search of an Agent
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> Capitalism is inherently imperialist, no matter how much mainstream Western thinking and certain strands of Marxism (yes!) deny it. Its contradictions <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=bd1623bf7c&e=a54f52b6c6>, such as overproduction of capital and commodities, and reliance on cheap inputs <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=d30b195dc6&e=a54f52b6c6>, make it so. So, in addition to the working classes in the homelands of capitalism, it also exploits the working population of the Third World, in more and less easy alliances with its ruling classes. However, going back to the Marxism of the Second International, Marx’s understanding of capitalisms’ contradictions and the value analysis which generated it, were jettisoned as Marxists fell under the influence of the emerging neoclassical economics even though its explicit purpose was to oppose Marxism. A new ‘Marxist Economics’ emerged, pursuing what Bukharin called a ‘policy of theoretical reconciliation <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=1f1616ffd2&e=a54f52b6c6>’ with neoclassical economics.
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> On the strength of this, most Marxists judged that Marx’s analysis of capitalism as contradictory value production suffered form a ‘transformation problem’. It could not ‘transform values into prices’, entirely ignoring the fact that prices were the only forms in which values expressed themselves and its distortions were necessary to the dynamics of capitalism. Marxist economists also insisted that Marx never claimed that paucity of demand was a problem under capitalism despite overwhelming evidence <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=d6ca6f9195&e=a54f52b6c6> to the contrary and that Marx was wrong about the tendency of profits to fall.
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> Radhika Desai <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=6e49f64aa5&e=a54f52b6c6> is a professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba and Dimension's Geopolitical Economy <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=b4f3d38098&e=a54f52b6c6> columnist. Read her multi-part commentary on the COVID-19 crisis entitled "What is to be Done? A Manifesto for Politics Amid the Pandemic and Beyond," <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=d037896665&e=a54f52b6c6> in Canadian Dimension.
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> What is to be Done? A Manifesto for Politics Amid the Pandemic and Beyond
> Part I: Political Hope Rises <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=2e8afe0225&e=a54f52b6c6>
> Part II: From Pandemic to Political Pandemonium <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=04f6947780&e=a54f52b6c6>
> Part III: Political Hope in Search of an Agent <https://canadiandimension.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=98332d567e1c51d5e2c227858&id=baa7f8a6f3&e=a54f52b6c6>
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> Demands for a Post-Pandemic Future
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> In the post-pandemic period, we need mass movements that go beyond protesting cuts in an effort merely to impede the advance of a regressive agenda. If we think and act along these lines, the defensive strategies that marked the neoliberal decades may yield to a more militant and radical approach that poses the question of a “broad transformation of our society.”
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> The Pandemic From a Lawyer's Perspective
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> If people in need had a right to be rescued by others who have more talent or more wealth, then the owners of the means of production might have to share their wealth. There would be a push toward honouring Marx’s aspirational slogan, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. This is unacceptable to capitalism and will remain so after this pandemic is over.
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> The Right-Wing Checkpoint for Canada's Intervention in Ukraine
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> COVID-19's Impact on Montréal's Poorest Residents Lays Bare Striking Inequalities
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> Québec premier François Legault often speaks of “two Québec’s” in his near-daily press briefings on the COVID-19 crisis. To be sure, however, we should also speak of two Montréal’s: one that is home to the (predominantly white) middle- and upper-classes, and the other, to poverty-stricken neighborhoods which are currently experiencing the worst of the crisis.
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