[A-List] accumulation/financialisation - a query

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Jurriaan Bendien"



There are few good books nowadays analysing the "real capitalism" of our
time more systematically, and past texts are to a large extent out of date.
Essentially what someone like Grossman did was to assess abstractly the
interaction of some main factors influencing the rise and fall of the rate &

mass of profit over time. Ernest Mandel, who was influenced by Grossman
(though also critical of him) did more or less the same. But I think there's

much more to social and economic analysis than that, and Marxist discussions

of money & credit, and of international trade, are often rather weak. Few
Marxist authors actually propose viable alternative policies which are any
different from left-social democratic or centre-left policies.


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CB: Hello Jurriaan.

Might the weakness of Marxist discussions of reforms of captialist money,
credit and international trade be because Marxists are supposed to focus on
overthrowing capitalist finance, not reforming it ?