The Real Debt Crisis 2 Aug 2011 | 06:19 pm

While Obama plays electoral politics with the Tea Party and Congress over the "debt ceiling," the real movement of capital continues its precipitous course. Toxic Waste Dumps for Credit Robert Kurz ...

Das Grinsen der Verkäufer 11 Jan 2011 | 07:06 pm

Towards a New Theory of Fascism or a Theory of Neo-Fascism or Something Else Entirely but Certainly Less Ambitious 13 Oct 2010 | 04:36 pm

These notes were inspired by a Twitter conversation (or what passes for conversation in bite-size sentence fragments). I was going to post this on Tumblr, but seeing as though I've already used this s...

On Loren Goldner 2 Sep 2010 | 09:22 am

Some curious folks made their way to the Niebyl-Proctor library in Oakland to listen to Loren Goldner talk about the crisis in capitalism and possible forms of organization to overthrow commodity-prod...

Mobilization Against UC Crisis Administration 10 Sep 2009 | 05:33 pm

In a now-familiar series of events, the collapse of the housing finance bubble in 2008 led to what is generally considered the worst economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In Cal...

Inflation or Deflation? 31 May 2009 | 09:25 am

Paul Krugman's latest op-ed seeks to quell fears about inflation. Krugman claims that media coverage has overstated the dangers of inflation and that, in the near term, deflation is much more troubles...

Moishe Postone: Interview 13 May 2009 | 04:33 am

I recently discovered an interview with Moishe Postone online at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota. It seems to have been conducted in May of 2008, but I haven't seen any...

Dry Tinder 19 Apr 2009 | 03:31 pm

Pharisaical conservatives, in blogs, newspapers, and television, express apoplectic indignation at Janet Napolitano's report about the rise of right-wing extremist political groups. It's richly ironic...

Crash Course 20 Nov 2008 | 01:40 pm

Finally, some English-language analyses with a value-critical approach to the current crisis are emerging. A translation of the Gruppe Krisis' "pamphlet on the financial crisis" titled "Crash Course" ...

For Kurz, Hemlock; for the Crisis Administrators, the Guillotine 11 Nov 2008 | 11:22 am

Obama's victory has provoked contrary sentiments. On one hand, his partisans feel buoyed by a wave of optimism and hope. Finally, change has come. On the other, his opponents are deeply suspicious of ...