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Frederick Engels: The First Marxist?[embedded content] The 2023 World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) Forum took place in Pingtan city (Fudgian province, China). In this forum I presented a paper titled ‘Once Again On The Alledged Differences Between Marx and Engels’. The paper confronts the attacks by many older and newer anti-Engelsionists (prominent among them M.Heinrich and D.Harvey) against Engels and it refutes their allegations that (a) Engels has falsified Marx’s...

The collective volume THE GREEK CAPITALISM IN CRISIS – MARXIST ANALYSES has been translated Chinese and published in China. The book was edited by Stavros Mavroudeas and includes contributions of several Greek Marxist political economists. It was originally written in English and published by Routledge. The Chinese edition was translated in the NorthWest University (in X’ian) and published by China Economics Publishers. Several presentations of the book in Chinese...

This is the English transcript of an interview of S.Mavroudeas for the spanish site EL CONFIDENCIAL (https://www.elconfidencial.com/). Its subject is the state of the EU and the Greek economy. The Spanish translation will appear on the 25th of August 2023. [embedded content] View this document on Scribd

On this day, August 5, 1895, the co-founder of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, died. His contribution to both theoretical analysis and revolutionary politics was decisive, regardless of the fact that he himself chose to play «second fiddle». Today, his contribution is under the attack of «spineless friends of Marxism». The key points of this attack are that: (a) Marx was a liberal spirit who constantly investigated issues and who in the end probably did not have a firm opinion on...

Σαν σήμερα, την 5η Αυγούστου του 1895, πέθανε ο συνιδρυτής του Μαρξισμού Friedrich Engels. Η συνεισφορά του τόσο στην θεωρητική ανάλυση όσο και στην επαναστατική πολιτική υπήρξε καθοριστική, άσχετα με το γεγονός ότι ο ίδιος επέλεξε να κάνει το «δεύτερο βιολί». Σήμερα, η συμβολή του αυτή βρίσκεται στο στόχαστρο της επίθεσης «άσπονδων φίλων του Μαρξισμού». Τα βασικά σημεία της επίθεσης αυτής είναι ότι: (α) Ο Marx ήταν ένα φιλελεύθερο πνεύμα που ερευνούσε συνεχώς ζητήματα και που...

Abstract The financialization hypothesis (FH) is a popular leitmotiv which argues that the financial system conquers the commanding heights of the capitalist economy. It maintains that finance gained independence from productive-capital and began to dominate it. The FH bases this argument on several empirical claims concerning the size and the strategic role of financial entities. This article offers a critique of crucial analytical and empirical claims of the FH. It argues that the...

‘Weak, unpopular’ Macron using military means to quell protests: Professor Saturday, 01 July 2023 11:19 AM  [ Last Update: Saturday, 01 July 2023 11:19 AM ] By Somayeh Khalili The government of Emmanuel Macron in France is both “weak and terribly unpopular” and believes that resorting to suppressive mechanisms and even the military is “the only way” to quell popular protests sweeping the country, according to a political observer. In an interview with the Press TV website,...

The V Moscow Academic Economic Forum (2023 MAEF) was held on 7-8 June 2023, organised by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Russian Free Economic Society (VEO of Russia) and the International Union of Economists (IUE) Part of the Forum was the VII International Political Economy Congress (IPEC-2023), that took place at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University S.Mavroudeas (Panteion University, Dept. of Social Policy) was invited speaker in the Forum....

The DIMITRA plan and the financial and political alchemies of G. Varoufakis S.Mavroudeas * & Th. Chatzirafailidis ** *Professor of Political Economy, Department of Social Policy, Panteion University ** PhD candidate , Department of Economics, UoA 1. Verbal ‘saviors’ in times of crisis It is common, in times of crisis, the appearance of ‘saviors’ promising to suffering popular masses salvation through imaginative plans that will reform the system and improve...

IRIB (the iranian national TV channel) hosted a discussion about the human costs of the European energy crisis. The lead was given by a recent ECONOMIST article arguying that the deaths caused (through cardiac and respiratory complications) by the lack of sufficient energy (caused by the skyrocketing of the energy prices) surpassed those caused by COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, the ECONOMIST attributed the high cost of energy to Russia and the Ukraine conflict. I argued that the...