How is labour to be conceptualised in the present context? On the one hand, there are the claims of the new economy that old forms of labour are being transformed and reformed; on the other, there is ...

This paper analyzes recent struggles surrounding dam projects and extractive industry in Dersim, a Kurdish-Alevi municipality in Eastern Turkey, as both a continuation of state violence against ...

The articles collected in this second issue of The Commoner deal with some aspects of the multi faced reality of “enclosures”. The reality of enclosures, in the Marxist tradition also referred to as ...

Karl Marx (Marx, 1867), in Capital Vol. 1, identifies the various sources of primitive accumulation that allowed the European capital to spread globally, specially the colonial plunder, public debt ...

PONARS Policy Memo 274 - The End of "Primitive Capitalist Accumulation"? The New Bankruptcy Law and the Political Assertiveness of Russian Big Business 135kb One of the important long-term trends in ...

The dictatorship of corruption and mediocrity that I discussed at length in the lecture that I delivered at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs on Saturday, July 13, 2013 and that was ...

Charting change from the cutting edge of knowledge, pursuing the frontiers of research to ever-widening horizons, the Social Scientist has built a reputation of being an outstanding journal in social ...

Above: Map showing Great Civilisation stretching from America, across Africa, to the far reaches of Asia (C2, A2, B2); also, places of origin of capitalist barbarism, Mesoamerica (circa 8,000 BCE), ...

MDC-T secretary- general and Finance minister Tendai Biti has taken a swipe at Zanu PF for engaging in “primitive accumulation” of wealth saying the former ruling party does not care how and where ...

With all protocols duly observed, let me go directly to the subject of this open letter to you: justice delayed is justice denied. I don’t have to tell you of all persons that this is one of the most ...