Reviews : Kozo Uno, Principles of Political Economy : Theory of a Purely Capitalist Society, (Harvester 1980) Make to Itoh, Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan, (Monthly Review Press 1980)

Thesis Eleven ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Eldred
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Marxian Economics

Re-Engaging Critical Communication Studies With Social Classes

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-97
Author(s):  
Gökhan Bulut
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Class Struggle ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Homogeneous Structure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The Relationship

This article is an attempt to reestablish the linkage of the political economy of communication with the field of social classes and class relations. Studies in the field of political economy of communication are mostly shaped within the scope of instrumentalist explanation: Social communication institutions such as communication and media are perceived as a very homogeneous structure and these institutions are directly considered as the apparatus of capital and capitalists. However, in this study, it is argued that in capitalist societies, communication, and media should be understood as a field and medium of class struggle loaded with contradictions. Another point is that the political economy of communication is mostly limited to media studies. However, in today's capitalist societies, the media is not the only structure and actor in which communication forms. In this study, communication practices in capitalist society are discussed in the context of class discussions and the relationship between class struggle, culture and communication is discussed.

scholarly journals POPULAR MAGAZINES, NEW LIBERAL DISCOURSE AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, 1890s–1914

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-142
Author(s):  
Matthew Schneirov
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Corporate Capitalism ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Mass Circulation

The study of the mass circulation “popular magazine” during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era was revived during the 1990s as part of the emerging fields of gender studies, consumer studies, and the study of the new middle class. Richard Ohmann's seminal work viewed these magazines through the lens of the political economy and class relations of an emerging corporate capitalist society and explored the relationship between mass culture and the political economy of capitalism. This paper reexamines the connection between a national mass culture, the new middle class, and an emerging corporate capitalist society through the lens of post-structuralist discourse theory. Corporate capitalism is conceptualized as in part a discourse, the new liberalism, which incorporated or rearticulated populist and socialist discourses and in doing so temporarily won the consent of the capitalist class, middle classes, and segments of the working class. Through the pages of popular magazines readers were offered pieces of a new discourse that embraced corporations rather than the “free market,” women's entry into public life, and new constructions of the self. During the muckraking era, elements of socialism and populism were integrated into mainstream American culture. Overall, the essay argues that a discourse perspective on popular magazines can open up new perspectives on corporate capitalism and the new liberalism. While corporate capitalism marked the decline of the producer–republican tradition, it also marked the emergence of an American social democratic tradition, a mixture of capitalist and socialist social formations.

A Theory of Mental Health and Monopoly Capitalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
David Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
North America ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Individual

As an exposition of capitalism's contradictions, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy's Monopoly Capital remains one of the most influential treatises in Marxist political economy produced in North America. Among Baran and Sweezy's sociological investigations, they identified the negative consequences of capitalism for mental health, drawing attention to the manner in which the organization of capitalist society conflicted with the essential needs of the individual.

Critical Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: An Immanent Critique of Nancy Fraser's “Systematic” “Crisis-Critique” of Capitalism as an “Institutionalized Social Order”

2021 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-235
Author(s):  
Chris O'Kane
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Critical Social Theory ◽  
Alternative Possibility ◽  
Systematic Theory ◽  
Immanent Critique ◽  
Nancy Fraser

The predominant approach to contemporary critical theory lacks a critical theory of capitalist society. Nancy Fraser has endeavored to provide such a critical theory in her “systematic” “crisis–critique” of capitalism as an “institutionalized social order.” Yet Fraser's “systematic” theory is not systematic, but fragmentary and internally inconsistent. The Marxian premises of Fraser's theory are at odds with its ensuing Habermasian notions of capitalism, contradiction, crises, and emancipation, and her theory consequently lacks a robust explication of these dynamics. This raises the alternative possibility of developing a contemporary critical theory of the crisis–ridden reproduction of the negative totality of capitalist society that brings Adorno and Horkheimer's critical theory together with the subterranean strand of contemporary critical theory: the New Reading of the critique of political economy as a critical social theory.

Intersectionality and Primary Accumulation: Caste and Gender in India under the Sign of Monopoly-Finance Capital

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Finance Capital ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Subsequent Incorporation ◽  
Do So

The overarching goal of this article is to explain how the relations between capitalist imperialism, primary accumulation—often misleadingly called "primitive accumulation"—and intersectionality operate in contemporary global political economy. From many recent studies, it is clear that certain populations are more vulnerable to processes of primary accumulation than others, and that many people in the global South now experience the dispossession and displacement caused by primary accumulation without any subsequent incorporation into waged work. Understanding how ethnicity, gender, and class intersect within contemporary patterns of global accumulation is important in order to develop clear political strategies against ongoing dispossessions.… To do so, imperialism, primary accumulation, and intersectionality all need to be rethought, especially in relation to each other.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

Notes from the Editors, September 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. c2-68
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Marge Piercy ◽  
Social Reproduction Theory ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Women’S Liberation

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review honors the fiftieth anniversary this month of Margaret Benston's landmark "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation." The essay sparked a revolution in Marxian thought, the full implications of which are only now being perceived in contemporary social reproduction theory. We have reprinted Benson’s pieces together with contributions by Silvia Federici, Martha E. Gimenez, Selma James (interviewed by Ron Augustin), Leith Mullings, Marge Piercy, and Lise Vogel, all of whom have played leading roles since the 1970s in the development of feminist historical materialism.

Notes from the Editors, July-August 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. c2-127
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World System ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Global North

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is meant both to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Harry Magdoff's The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy, which was devoted to the analysis of imperialism at the height of U.S. hegemony, and to carry this analysis forward to address the present era of late imperialism in the twenty-first century. In bringing together work on the political economy of imperialism in the current era of globalized production, we seek to transcend the now fashionable view within the Western academic left that the concept of imperialism is obsolete. The imperialist world system stands not only for capitalism at its most concrete historical level, but also for the entire dynamic structure of power constituting accumulation on a world scale, which can only be understood in terms of a developing global rift between center and periphery, global North and global South. Failure to attend to this fissure would be fatal for humanity.

Reconstructing Marx's Critique of Political Economy from His London Notebooks

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (7) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Kohei Saito
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Critical Edition ◽  
Index Volume ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Monthly Review

<div class="bookreview">Lucia Pradella, <em>Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx's Writings</em> (London: Routledge, 2015), 218 pages, $160, hardback.</div> In 2012, the second section of the new historical-critical edition of Marx and Engels's complete writings, the <em lang="de-DE">Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe </em>(MEGA), was finally completed, and all the editions and manuscripts of <em>Capital</em> became available in order to trace Marx's own theoretical development and Engels's editorial works. The remaining three sections are, however, only halfway completed, and it will likely take at least another twenty years before all the work is finished.&hellip; What is more, a great number of them are Marx's journal fragments and excerpts, which have not yet been published in any language. In this sense, the distinct importance of continuing the MEGA project is the further publication of these unknown notebooks, which promise to reveal Marx's unfinished undertaking, the critique of political economy.&hellip; It is therefore no coincidence that a new trend has emerged in the last few years of scholars studying Marx's notebooks. Works like Kevin Anderson's <em>Marx at the Margins</em>, Heather Brown's <em>Marx on Gender</em>, and my own article on Liebig in <em>Monthly Review </em>have shown the underestimated theoretical dimensions of anti-colonialism, gender, and ecology in Marx's thought.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-7" title="Vol. 67, No. 7: December 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

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