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Finally completed my second (and more successful) reading of Steve Keen's book. An impressive introduction to (and demolition of) neoclassical economics. A tale never told better.
Why isn't Keen a Marxist? He doesn't want to be drawn into a position where one is committed to overthrow capitalism rather than fix it, but also I think because his approach is very .. Australian. A kind of bluff, no-nonsense concrete directness which is a world away from Marx's sophistication of thought. However, you can be a Marxist and not believe capitalism is ripe for overthrow.
Keen's fairly grotesque mischaracterisation of Marxism is addressed by "Left Flank" (on the resources sidebar in the web version): "Steve Keen wrong about Marx".
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I don't of course agree with International Socialism's Leninist aspirations but I thought Alex Callinicos's article, Brexit blues, was a pretty good outline of the dilemmas facing British capitalism.
The SWP was one of the few British left-wing organisations which did not succumb to the neoliberal ideological onslaught and capitulate to 'Remain'.
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