Tag: Japan

Notice what Kohei Saito was reading when his career went soaring?

Notice what Kohei Saito was reading when his career went soaring?

In this image, Kohei Saito holds a copy of "Monopoly Capital," by Baran and Sweezy. Saito’s book "Capital in the Anthropocene" (not to be confused with John Bellamy Foster's book by a similar name) has become an unlikely hit among younger readers...

Contradictions of the contemporary accumulation regime (Socialist Register 2023 reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

as Marx showed, while accumulation creates an ever greater mass of means of production, this in itself begins to throw up barriers to the profitable reproduction of such great quantities of capital. This contradiction results in the intensification of competition between capitals over labour, raw materials and markets, not the least consequence of which is imperialist tension and war...