A million of the Irish toilers: a Marxist approach to the Great Irish Famine

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The nature and significance of the Great Famine in Ireland during the 19th century can be explained from a Marxist perspective. This Marxist analysis of the famine illustrates the role of historical materialism in presenting a more objective view of the factors that contributed to the potato blight. Furthermore, the Marxist explanation of the famine highlights the importance of the production mode approach in understanding underdeveloped economies and focuses on the effect of the political economy on the British response to the disaster.

Economic aspects, Ireland, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Potatoes, Diseases and pests, Marx, Karl (German political philosopher), Famines, Potato blight, Irish famines

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From communist manifesto to Empire: How Marxists have viewed global capitalism in history

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The Marxist globalization debate and its roots in Marx's post-1848 writings and the Lenin-Kautsky unity-rivalry debate on the eve of World War I are analyzed. The post-1916 Marxist view of capitalist imperialism is contrasted with the Hardt-Negri 'Leninist' view of global capitalization they call 'empire', and the Lenin-Kautsky debate is discussed to refute their theory, proving that Kautsky's idea of ultraimperialism is best suited to global capitalism, not empire.

Globalization

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Circuits of capital and overproduction: A Marxist analysis of the present world economic crisis

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A Marxist perspective is adopted to argue that the struggle of the world economy in its worst slowdown since the 1970s should be seen as the latest phase of an inherently occurring crisis of overproduction resulting from the capitalist mode of production itself. Crisis during the interwar and postwar periods are examined and the present crisis in 2003-04 is set within that wider historical context to demonstrate the theory.

Global economy, Overproduction

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