Sup comrades,
Looking to do a deep dive into current price hikes and inflation with some comrades and looking for resources to explain, critique and solve the problem form a marxist perspective.
The term inflation famously doesn’t really come up explicitly in Marx, only “money devaluation” afaik, but still if you got relevant material/articles/books/whatever on the topic, I’d love to go through them
Cheers
If you want to learn about economics from a Marxist perspective might I recommend Marx’ Capital? Or Wage Labour and Capital? Great works that answer all of your questions and more. They really are essential books that every leftist should read.
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/M&E/1867-c1/index.htm
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/M&E/1847/wage-labour/index.htm
I’ve read Wage Labour and Capital a while ago as well as Value, Price and Profit and while essential reading, I don’t think it’s sufficient for me to really talk about inflation on a seminar-level. Capital - don’t really have the time for it for this deep dive and I wanna read it as part of a group
It might have been Capital where I learned it. I understand, best to wait then. Sorry I can’t be of help here.
The recent Geopolitical Economy Hour on inflation comes to mind. In terms of written works I’m drawing a blank today. In general it’s also a topic I’m interested in.
Geopolitical Economy Hour
Hate that name change…no recall value at all.
But excellent suggestion. Thought about Michael Hudson too when setting up this post, but nothing specific came to mind. This is exactly it. Richard Wolff did quite a few espidodes last years on the topic too now that I’m thinking about it
Thanks comrade!
I totally agree. I get that Ben Norton wanted to expand the perspective a bit, but Multipolarista was catchy and still covers the gist of his and his guests perspectives.
Yeah what’s up with Ben Norton renaming Multipolarista? The new name sucks, it’s boring and over long and not memorable at all… Really bad branding. Did he not have anyone with some understanding of basic marketing to tell him not to do it? Multipolarista was way more inspired.
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Here’s a good article/podcast on inflation: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/01/27/inflation-economists-radhika-desai-michael-hudson/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-causes-77841454
This is great, cheers comrade!
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