Tag: marxist theory
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The Catechesis of Semifeudalism
Vulgar economy actually does no more than interpret, systematise and defend in doctrinaire fashion the conceptions of the agents of bourgeois production who are entrapped in bourgeois production relations. It should not astonish us, then, that vulgar economy feels particularly at home in the estranged outward appearances of economic relations in which these prima facie…
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The Political Economy of Corruption
Preliminary notes on corruption and the peripheral-capitalist State; towards a critique of “Anti-Corruption” Metro Manila is drowning in shit and leptospirosis. Recent news, not at all old, believe it or not. A situationer In the recent weeks following sensational media stories and exposé of rampant corruption in flood control infrastructure financing, we have seen the…