Tag Archives: historical dialectic

Some philosophy in the broad sense that is neither MMT nor economics-related but important owing to its contemporary relevance in determining the social, political and economic dialectic that the world is experiencing at this point in time and which is shaping the future for some time to come.Are we in another Gramsci interregnum? The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying but the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. — A....

Weekend reading.This post presents the Marxist position on human nature as socially embedded and historically determined in contrast to the the natural law position of classical liberalism that is based on individualism.Longish, but clearly written and informative.CounterfireMarxism and Human Nature Elaine Graham-Leigh

Good summary of the basic Marxist world view, which Marx got essentially correct in my view. It's what we now call economic sociology/anthropology. In my view also, economic sociologists and economic anthropologists are much closer to getting it right than theoretical economists, most of whom have lost the big picture by overly limiting the scope and scale of their inquiry.NewsClick (India)Karl Marx And His Conception Of History Irfan Habib (Irfan means wisdom, gnosis in Arabic. Habib...