Michael Lebowitz Marxist economist was in Canberra last night speaking on the capitalist crisis and the path to human development. Luis Bilbao United Socialist Party also spoke on Venezuela, Socialism in Latin America.
Michael Lebowitz was earlier on ABC Late Night Live. He features on a number of posts on this blog. He mentioned his new pamphlet ‘The Path to Human Development Capitalism or Socialism?‘
This Socialist Interventions Pamphlet Series is to encourage principled debate amongst the left and the working class to advance a viable socialist movement in Canada and elsewhere. Democratic debate is encouraged within and beyond the Socialist Project. The pamphlet is freely available for download.
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The financial and economic crisis currently enveloping the world market is causing an enormous amount of social chaos. Workers and families are being dislocated from their communities as factories and workplaces are shutdown. Immigrants already forced to migrate to find work are amongst the first laid-off and pushed into even more exposed social settings.
Women’s work is becoming increasingly precarious, and the pressures on women to undertake unpaid care work increasing. A vulnerable planet is under greater pressures as measures to improve the world’s ecology are sacrificed to the need to restore corporate profits.
As Mike Lebowitz notes in the pamphlet below, the logic of capital is opposed to the logic of human development. In an economic crisis, all is sacrificed to the restoration of capitalist profitability.
A new anti-capitalist movement is emerging.
This is renewing the popularity of the writings of Karl Marx, and in particular his penetrating analysis in Capital, still the foremost analysis of why capitalist development inevitably leads to economic crises.
The ideas of socialism are re-gaining popular resonance. New study groups and activist campaigns are growing daily.
The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism? is a significant contribution to these efforts.Take part in the anti-capitalist movement that is emerging across the world. Alternatives to financial greed, economic chaos and barbarism are not only possible, they have taken on an urgency.
Michael Lebowitz, is director of the program in Transformative Practice and Human Development at the Centro Internacional Miranda in Caracas, Venezuela. He is showing some interesting videos about Venezuala. Lebowitz is also author of Build it Now: 21st Century Socialism and Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class, and winner of the Isaac Deutscher memorial prize for 2004.
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