Tag: Economics
The Persistence of Global Capitalism’s Long Depression
Ashley Smith interviews Michael Roberts about the Long Depression and its role in driving political polarization and imperial rivalry.
On Profitability and Reforming Capitalism
Michael Roberts responds to Seth Ackerman’s sprawling critique of Robert Brenner.
Resisting the Debt System
Ashley Smith interviews Éric Toussaint about the history of the debt system and its new crisis.
Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis
What caused the SVB failure? Is a larger crisis on the horizon? Michael Roberts talks to Spectre’s Ashley Smith.
The Crash after the Sugar Rush
In this interview, Michael Roberts discusses both mainstream and Marxist explanations for the current global slump, and how the left should be responding to it.
Out of Lockdown and Back into the Long Depression
Ashley Smith interviews Marxist economist Michael Roberts about the deeper reasons for capitalism’s contemporary malaise, the shape and contradictions of the recovery, and debates between Marxists and Keynesians about the ability of government spending to restore growth and profitability to capitalism.
Antiracist History, Crisis Theory, and University Workers’ Struggles
Spectre’s Charlie Post interviews Rick Kuhn about his prolonged bout of Grossmania, ongoing university struggles in Australia, Bundism in Eastern Europe, and more