[Marxism] IMT launches MarxistEconomics.com

[Adam Richmond <adambrichmond@xxxxxxxxx>]

New Marxist economics website – check it out now                                
                                        
                                                                
                                        
                                                
                                
                                                        
                                
                                        
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                
                                        
                                
                                        
                                                 By In Defence of Marxism       
                                
                                          
                                
                        
                                                
                                
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MarxistEconomics.com


This new website is now operational. Set up by
supporters of the International Marxist Tendency, it is intended as a service
and an educational tool for the entire labour movement.

 
The website sets out Courses, Information and Resources.


You work through the Courses, which are really at the
heart of the educational project. At present there are two Courses – ‘Basic
Concepts and Ideas’ and ‘Looking at Value.’ More are promised. There are
hotlinks to definitions within the Courses. 


There are already signs of interaction and questioning
among the first users. There is a section. ‘Latest posts.’ Feedback is
welcomed. 


There are classic texts handy. There are links to sites
many of our supporters may be unaware of – statistical websites for instance.
So MarxistEconomics.com can be used as an integrated tool for research.


Several features will be of immediate interest. Under
the ‘Individual Topics’ there are links to useful articles grouped by subject. 


There is no doubt the amount of material posted will
grow and improve in content. We welcome this website as an important
contribution to education in Marxism


Here is what they say about themselves:


        
        The MarxistEconomics.com website has been designed to
        provide courses, information and resources to promote the study of 
Marxist
        economics (more correctly called 'Marxist political economy'). We 
therefore
        welcome the input by all those seeking to learn about Marxist economics 
and who
        wish to contribute to its promotion, wider understanding and 
development. 
        
        
        Everyone in today’s society is constantly bombarded with the
        ideas of capitalist economics (also known as orthodox economics and
        neo-classical economics). We are indoctrinated with ideas that accept 
this
        particular economic understanding. These ideas are everywhere around 
us: in
        newspapers, TV programmes, Hollywood movies, and the very language that 
we
        use. 
        
        
        It is rarely that you hear about Marxist economics, you will
        for example, not find it in the school curriculum of countries around 
the
        world; in the UK’s Advanced Level economic qualification, US High School
        Diplomas or the International Baccalaureate. Nor is it seriously 
studied at
        undergraduate level. 
        
        
        But this is not because Marxist economics has no validity in
        terms of understanding economic systems and society. Quite the 
contrary, we
        would argue that it is the ideas of the pro-capitalist neo-classical 
economics
        which often rest on mysticism basing itself on self-defined truisms. 
        
        
        Marxist political economy, as a subject, is part of a wider
        body of ideas generally known as Marxism with which it forms an 
integrated
        whole. It was originally developed by Karl Marx as a means of 
understanding how
        capitalist society worked. But both in its origins and in today’s 
society it
        cannot be separated from political ideas and an understanding of 
capitalism as
        a society of exploitation, which is also an arena of class struggles.
        



      
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